Re: Greek kitharis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I never said k > s (or anything similar) before new y.
> > > The message in this thread that apparently sparked the recent
> > > question is below; complain to him if you disagree.
> >
> > No need to complain. An obvious blunder on my part, as the
> > present discussion of <sitar> has shown. <guitar> and <zither>
> > derive from <kítHaris, kitHára>, <sitar> doesn't.
>
> He didn't have any need to complain about my answer, but he
> did anyway.

I didn't complain about your post, but merely denied the claims
therein.

> I don't think you made an obvious blunder; the existence of E
> three-peat doesn't mean E repeat isn't related by borrowing
> to Romance words.

I'm afraid I don't know what "E three-peat" and "E repeat" mean,
but if you're trying to claim that 'sitar' could have given rise
to 'zither', 'guitar', then again I have to express my doubts.

The question isn't one of comparing the form of the words alone,
it must be understood. Quite a bit is known about the history
of these musical instruments and their designations, with which
facts any theory about their etymologies needs to accord.

David