Re: [tied] Old Rus' of the many "nationes"

From: george knysh
Message: 11467
Date: 2001-11-24

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:
> The Dnieper is first mentioned in a Greek source in
> the form
> Da'napris.

*****GK: Why not start the analysis from the earlier
form: BORYSTHENES. Many linguists hold that this also
is a river+river (BORYS+THENES) term, of which the 4th
c. A.D. DANA+PRIS is merely a reshuffle.*****



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