Re: [tied] Re: Snorri on "Odin's journey"

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 32180
Date: 2004-04-22

> From: tgpedersen [mailto:tgpedersen@...]

> 12. za-tvoriti 'schliessen' < *tworo- *dhworo-, Gr. thúra:
> 'Tür'

It seems Lithuanian (ablauting!) <tvérti> 'enclose (with fence); band(age)',
<tvorà> 'fence', <turé:ti> 'have' (<'grip') are borrowed from the same
mysteriuos language as well... Or Kortlandt is wrong about that particular
word.

Sergei