[tied] Re: Medieval Dragons, dog/snake, Greek Dragons

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> > <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "John <jdcroft@...>"

<jdcroft@...>

> wrote:
> > There were 4 tonne Monitors (Genus Megalanus) related to the

Komodo

> > Dragon, that coexisted with Australian Aboriginal people here at
> the
> > time of their arrival here (part of the extinct Megafauna). It

was

> > amn ambush predator and was suspected as living near waterholes.
> >
> > An Australasian Urheimat for Dragons ;-)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > John
> >
>
> Aha! Oho! Just what I suspected. Now I will become completely
> intolerable.
> There is of course also the old association of salamders with fire
> (unless it was halitosis, which I learn is common among Komodo
> dragons).
>

I looked into my Universal Toolbox for Fixing Austroneso-AfroAsiatico-
IndoEuropean Problems and sure enough:

http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/dHr.html

here is another root for 'dragon' *t/dH-r- "dry, stiff, barren", thus
*s-t-r- "make dry, stiff, barren" (note ON "tetanus"); + velar
suffix. How about "the one that gives you tetanus (makes you stiff,
dry, dead)" for a name of a relative of the Komodo dragon?

> Torsten