Talk:Vukovar

Etymology
Is there any connection with the Seriban вук or Croation vuk, the words for "wolf"? Inter lingua talk email 13:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I didn't want to mess in, I'll leave that to somebody who knows how to do that, but "var" is actually spelled "vár" in hungarian, and it means castle, or stronghold (a fortified place of defence to be exact). "Város" (in hungarian meaning something with a castle) is town. 14:07, 9 March 2007 (CET)

Interlingua, the city is named after the river Vuka. Is river Vuka named after the wolf (vuk), that's the other question. Kubura 14:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

I am pretty sure the connection to the Croatian word "vuk" (wolf) is a folk-etymology. In ancient times, the river Vuka was called Ulca. That's way before Slavic languages were even spoken there. There is a theory that the river names Ulca and Volga are related, but this is uncertain. Rivers are usually named after a word for "flow" or "water", certainly not "wolf". Sometimes after a fish, but never after the word for "wolf". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.201.206.176 (talk) 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Is there any evidence that there was a folk etymology in the phonological development of the name of the river "Vuka"? I mean, what would "Ulca", if borrowed into Old Croatian, give in Modern Croatian regularly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FlatAssembler (talk • contribs) 14:50, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Vukovar
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