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Help[Surname] Re: Volavka
in reply to a message by Dana
To me it looks Slavic ...and I'm not an authority on Slavic. If I had to venture a guess quickly, I'd say it has ties to the same root as Volga ...or the Volga River ... maybe totally off base ...
But if it does, then I found ...
Nomenclature
The Russian hydronym Во́лга is akin to the Slavic word for "wetness", "humidity" (влага, волога). It is transliterated as Volga in English and as Wolga in German. Another possibility is that the river's name has Finnic roots.
The Turkic populations living along the river formerly referred to it as Itil or Atil. Attila the Hun might have been named after this river as well. In modern Turkic languages, the Volga is known as İdel (Идел) in Tatar, Атăл (Atăl) in Chuvash and İdil in Turkish. Another version of the same root is represented by Mari Юл (Jul).
A still more ancient hydronym is the Scythian name of the river, Rha, which may reflect the ancient Avestan and Sanskrit names Rañha and Rasah for a sacred river.[1] This ancient name survives in the modern Mordvin name for the Volga, Рав (Raw).
At ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga
But if it does, then I found ...
Nomenclature
The Russian hydronym Во́лга is akin to the Slavic word for "wetness", "humidity" (влага, волога). It is transliterated as Volga in English and as Wolga in German. Another possibility is that the river's name has Finnic roots.
The Turkic populations living along the river formerly referred to it as Itil or Atil. Attila the Hun might have been named after this river as well. In modern Turkic languages, the Volga is known as İdel (Идел) in Tatar, Атăл (Atăl) in Chuvash and İdil in Turkish. Another version of the same root is represented by Mari Юл (Jul).
A still more ancient hydronym is the Scythian name of the river, Rha, which may reflect the ancient Avestan and Sanskrit names Rañha and Rasah for a sacred river.[1] This ancient name survives in the modern Mordvin name for the Volga, Рав (Raw).
At ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga
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