Re: The Pontic Indics

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "George Hinge" <litgh@...> wrote:

> When looking for an etymology, one has to take into consideration

that

> the initial h- did not necessarily belong to the original form,

given

> that an initial ypsilon is automatically written with spiritus asper
> and pronounced with an h. Furthermore, in the Ionic dialect, which

both

> Herodotus and most of the Greek colonist of the northen Black Sea

coast

> spoke, there was no h (psilosis).
> I do not have an etymology at hand, but it could very well be

Iranian,

> since upa- was a common preposition in Indo-Iranian.

Do You mean that Hypanis must be pronounced as Ypanis or Upanis? If as
Ypanis, then can it be related to Lithuanian word YPAS? There is such
Lithuanian phrase ISHGERTI VIENU YPU, meaning TO SWIG DOWN. If as
Upanis, then it means just RIVER (from Lithuanian word UPE, Latvian
word UPE, Old Prussian word APE, and probably Dacian word APA, meaning
RIVER).