OCS, Polish, and other Modern Slavic languages

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"H. Mark Hubey" <HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu> wrote:

>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>> Polabian, the language of the Slavs living on ("po") the Elbe
>> ("Labe"), is West Slavic, but different from Sorbian.

>Is "Labe" Slavic or left over from some other language?

Probably Germanic (or else Celtic or "Alteuropa"isch") *albi- >
elbe (with Germanic i-umlaut), and Slav. olb- > *la:b- (with
Slavic liquid metathesis).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam