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

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

>
> *****GK: I can't name any significant discrete Iranic
> Scythian group between Dnister and Dnipro. There is
> also the matter of the Boh (Bog) (=Hypanis), a pretty
> important river, which would have been "rear" to the
> Alizones, but their iranism is doubtful (and generally
> speaking there are practically no indubitable Iranic
> river names west of the Dnipro, and very many east
> thereof). One might think of the Sarmatian Yazigi, but
> their "front" was the Danube. And the Aorsi had
> different boundaries. So what looks interesting at
> first glance doesn't hold up to analysis.*****

Yes, and if those who named these rivers oriented
facing east, as would be expected, the "river to
the rear" should be further west than the "river
to the front". I wonder if only 'Dniepr' alone of
the pair has been correctly etymologized, and if
those who named it so then didn't live primarily
to its east. Maybe though, both etymologies need
to be scrapped?

David