From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 2223
Date: 2000-04-27
Piotr wrote:
etc.; some are even more straightforward: "the River", "the Stream", or "the Water".
An interesting example is Lithuanian Jūra, a river in Žemaitija, cf. jū^ra 'sea', also Thracian (according to Georgiev's work) iura 'river'.