From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 46534
Date: 2006-11-03
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"[...]
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>> Another great source of etymological research on the internetI haven't really been following this, but possibly also
>> is the cybalist group, in the archives of which one might try
>> to find the above river names.
> O.K., I have tried:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narew
> "Hydronimic *noru- is especially well attested in Baltic (e.g.
> Prussian Nerus, Nerusa, Polish Narew [a large tributary of the
> Vistula] < Sudovian *naru:-), though it isn't clear to me what it's
> supposed to mean. Some etymologists connect it with the root *ner-
> 'dive, penetrate'. I wonder if Germanic *naru- 'narrow' might be
> somehow related (although the Narew is a remarkably wide river)."
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15941
> "...the name Nrowa appears to be related to that of the Narew (a
> major eastern tributary of the Vistula system; the name, Old Polish
> <Nari> = Nary <-- *Naru:s was borrowed from West Baltic during the
> Middle Ages). There are other *nar(u)- hydronyms in the Baltic area,
> e.g. lith. Narupe, OPr. Narus. Nrowa < *norwa < *norwa: might very
> well be the same name (only borrowed much earlier) with the regular
> feminine ending added to *noru-."