Talk:Names of Moldavia and Moldova

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Victor Spinei says, quoting another author, that germanic mulda may have originally meant riverbed, probably coming from latin mulctra  meaning milking pail/trough Anonimu 12:51, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Question
Is it by any chance possible that the name could have come from "Mol + Dava", as in Ziridava (Arad), Dava (Deva), etc. ? [Dava being an old Indo-European word for God, (as in Latin 'deus', 'divus', for instance), meaning also 'strengthened city' or 'fortress']. Any hints or suggestions are welcomed. Thank you. -- Lucian.

P.S. : "Black Wallachia", "Black Sea" -- any connection ? (except the geographical one, of course).
 * "Black" in "Black Wallachia" comes from Turkish system of cardinal points. Black = North. Black Sea most likely comes from it's color especially near Danube. -- AdrianTM 17:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Etymology
The word Moldova (< *Maldava 'Young person, being') has South-West Baltic (Thracian) origin; -ava is typical Baltic ending (Daugava, Kandava etc.). It comes from malda 'young', cf. Old Prussian malds 'young', as also Slavic molod (< *mald-) 'young'. Roberts7 22:54, 6 May 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roberts7 (talk • contribs)
 * This is wrong. Reason 1 is that the name Moldo was given to a dog, which has nothing to do with Slavic names. Reason 2: the "Slavic" -ova ending for feminine nouns comes from Turkic ev ('house, housewife, family, marry' = family surnames = ancient Oghur tradition among Slavs). Furthermore Moldo is found in Kyrgyz Turkic names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.134.130.83 (talk) 11:18, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

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mold- never meant spruce in Slavic
--213.137.71.32 (talk) 03:26, 24 November 2020 (UTC)