[tied] Re: Why India?

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> > (Sergei)An (alternative) Old Russian name of Dnieper
> was
> > probably _So,vodU_.
> > A NE Iranian calque or an inherited PIE pattern?
>
> *****GK: That's quite interesting. What's your source
> for this probable alternative name?******
>

Before I recall the source and check it up, here's a tentative
answer: _Samvaton_ (or so?) is mentioned by Porphyrogenetes (?) as
the name of a fortress on a bank of the Dnieper. Somehow it was
supposed to reflected the name of the river rather than the features
of the place it was built in.

Sergei