Re: [tied] Re: IE "River", what are the

At 11:12:53 PM on Friday, April 8, 2005, etherman23 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes"
> <josimo70@...> wrote:

>> What the diverse names for "river" around the IE
>> languages?

>> Latin: ri:vus, flu:men, fluvius, amnis
>> Greek potamos, rheuma
>> Germanic strauma-, bro:ka-
>> Slavic:
>> Lithuanian:
>> Latvian:
>> Prussian:
>> Hittite:
>> Sanskrit: sindhu
>> Avestic:
>> Celtic:

> Old Irish abhann

That's not an OIr form, as you can see by the <bh>; the
corresponding OIr is <abann>. However, the DIL says that
<abann> and <aba> are actually later forms of OIr <ab> (also
<aub>, <oub>, <ob>) 'river'.

Brian