Re: [tied] Re: Something for Sergejus

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 19:49:42 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>As for the Thracian (in Greek rendering) <I'stros>
>'the Lower Danube' < (?) *is-ro- 'running in some specific way' <
>*eis-:is- 'move (quickly) etc', cf. Old Prussian (in German
>rendering) <Inster>, <Instrud>, <Instrut> < OPruss *Instra:
>'hydronym' < Baltic *ins-ra- 'flowing swiftly' < *ins- 'be moved
>quickly' + *-ra- < (through infixation) *eis-:is- and Lith. E'isra
>'hydronym' < *eis-ra- < *eis-.

Just an uninformed guess: couldn't <Istros> also be from *srowos
"flowing, river" (srowos > stro(o)s > istros)? I know we have
Thracian <Strumo:n> (< *sru-men) without i-, but who can say whether
the "Thracian" in one classical source is the same "Thracian" as in
another (or even the same) classical source?