[tied] Re: Something for Sergejus

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>I am wondering if the
> TURAS could have been changed to DANA (at the lower
> flow) because it was known by incoming Sarmatians to
> be as "foreign" to them as HYPANIS? Is there a
> plausible Pontic Indo-Aryan etymology for
> "TURAS"?*****

Sanskrit has a rich nest a of the words with the root <tur->, like

1. <tura'-> 'vigorous; swift' (a cognate of Iranian <*tu(:)ras> 2.
<tura'-> 'strong; rich'.

Sergei