Slavs and nemtsy

[Robert Orr]

> that if the Prussians were originally
>not a Germanic ethnicity (anyone want to write an article on the
>etymological links of Prus' and Rus'?)

Not unless in  a spirit of satire.  The two ethnonyms are originally quite
distinct.

"Prus"  has hardly changed since it was first recorded, in C 9 AD, and the
root cannot be broken down further.

"Rus", however is from Old Scandinavian "Roths(menn)" "rowers" (cf.  Finnish
"ruotsi", Estonian "roots" (referrng to Sweden; this does get a bit
complicated; see Struminski: Linguistic Interrelations in Early Rus, which
everybody should read closely)

Robert Orr

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