OCS, Polish, and other Modern Slavic languages

[Jim Rader]

In response to Rick McCallister's post:  I don't have the literature
at hand, but I'm quite certain <Leipzig> has an accepted Slavic
etymology, based on Common Slavic <*lipa> "linden tree."  Leipzig,
Dresden, and a number of other toponyms in the basin of the middle
and upper Elbe have Slavic etymologies.  Note current Czech <Lipsko>
= Leipzig, <Dra'z^d'any> (originally an ethnonym, I think)  =
Dresden, where the root-suffix boundaries are a little clearer.  If
anyone is really  interested in the details I can look them up.

Jim Rader

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

> 	So then, does Leipzig amount to something like "White River Town"
> with *la:b- > /laip/  with maybe the 2nd element related to English <wick>
> & German <weig>