Bravlin—Brave or Humble
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22344435 |
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| Authors | Andrey Vinogradov (0000-0001-6080-4463, National Research University Higher School of Economics), Maksim Korobov (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Maksim I Korobov |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 219-235 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slovene (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2304-0785 • E-ISSN: 2305-6754 |
| Publisher | Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.31168/2305-6754.2017.6.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2773922148 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
The paper focuses on the name of the barbarian warlord that appears in the Slavic and (recently discovered) Armenian versions of the Life of St. Stephen of Sougdaia as Бравлинъ and Պրաւլիս /Praulis/, respectively. These forms seem to point to Πραῦλις or Μπραῦλις in the lost Greek Vorlage. None of the previous attempts at constructing an etymology of the name—Slavic бран(ъ)ливъ (Russian copies of the Life), Swedish Bråvalla (G. Vernadsky, N. Belyaev, and O. Pritsak), Indo-Aryan *pravlīn(а)- (O. Trubachev), Spanish Braulio (V. Vasilievsky), or Gothic *Bra(h)vila (N. Ganina)—may be considered satisfactory. Having revisited the historical and linguistic arguments, we suggest that the name given to the barbarian prince humbled by the miracle of St. Stephen in the Greek text of the Life represented, in fact, good Greek: Πραΰλιος or Πραῦλις (from πραΰς ‘mild, humble’); furthermore, we suggest that the positional voicing of Π- > Μπ- [b] in Late Middle Greek might account for the initial Б-/Պ- (West Armenian [b]) of the attested forms
Ancient history · Armenian · Art · Barbarian · Etymology · Literature · Miracle · Slavic languages · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classics · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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