Comments by "Варяжский вопрос" (@normanism) on "Styrman"
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@alexpotienko4545 The form of the word "Rus'" is not Slavic. If you refer to the river Ros', the Slavic ethnonyms derived from the hydronyms have specific form:
Visla - Visliane
Bug - Buzhane
Morava - Moravane
Pena - Czerezpeniane
Volga - Volzhane, etc
In Novgorod area there is a river "Russa" and the city with the same name (nowadays Staraya Russa). The people lived by the shores of the Russa river called in the Novgorod Primal Chronicle "porshane" and the people of the city Russa: "rushane". In other words, if the river Ros' really gave it's name to a Slavic tribe, it would have a Slavic form "roshane" or "rshane" but not Rus'.
On the other hand, the form of the name Rus' is typical for the ethnonyms derived from foreign languages, compare:
lappi - lopi - лопь, suomi - sumi - сумь, livi - ливь, vadja - vodi - водь, dani - doni - донь, etc
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