> Piotr wrote:
> > > In view of Old Indic d��nu- 'dew, dripping
water'
> and Avestan> d��nu-, Ossetic don 'river', I'm
beginning to doubt> if the> original> meaning of
hydronymic *d��nu- was 'swift'. The> hypothetical
> development 'swift' > 'river, current' is>
uncontroversial, but why> 'swift' > 'dew'? But if
*d��nu- = 'flowing water',> all the other> meanings
can be explained quite naturally.> *D��neu-jo-s would
be
> 'like> running water' > 'torrential, swift'.
John Croft wrote:
> It also makes me think again of the Tuatha de Danann
> as "people of> the> river".
Can this etymon also explain the Vedic 'dAnava' as
opposed to the 'daitya'?
Kalyanaraman
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