Re: IE "River", what are the

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Baskophiles rejoice: Is-str.
>
> More likely < *h1isHró- 'strong, vigorous', cf. Skt. is.irá-, Gk.
> hierós, and in well-known rivernames: Celtic Isara, Baltic Is(t)ra.
>

Do you propose the same origin for Danish 'ising', that strong
vigorous flatfish, living among other places on the bottom of the
strong vigorous inlet of Isefjord in northern Sjælland?


Torsten