Re: Fire and the naughty little squirrel

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 5673
Date: 2001-01-21

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> This is getting interesting. It looks as if Slavic reflexes of *k^euk^- might exist (in Polish there must have been some confusion with the similar-sounding and semantically close German loan Schuss). *k^euk^-ro- 'agile' (if this is what s^ustryj comes from) would go very well with ground squirrels (*k^ouk^-lo-s ? -- the apparent yer may be a late epenthesis). I'll see if similar names can be found elsewhere in IE.
>
> Piotr
>

On the other hand, an etymological dictionary of Russian (not very reliable, but accidently not packed in the guarage) derives s^u'stryj from *seut-t-r-, *seut- being of the same IE *seut- as Lith. sia'ute.ti 'rage;behave violently'.

Sergei