From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 11270
Date: 2001-11-19
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Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 9:08 AM
Subject: [tied] -inthos, -ssos
>
> Asamus (Plin.) - the modern river of Os&m. The name was interpreted
> long time ago as `stony river' from the IE *ak'amo- `stony' in the
> Old-Ind. asman- `stone; sky', the Avest. asman `the same', the
> Pelasg. asaminthos '(stone) bath', the Lith. akmuo, -eñs `stone'.
> This interpretation fits perfectly to the character of Os&m, with
> stony bed in its upper and partially in its middle course. Compare
> with Assamum (a town in Dalmatia), which was renamed in the middle
> ages in Larida from the Latin lapis, -idis `stone'.
A very nice message. This can confirm the satemic quality of
"inthos"-language?
> Ze:'rynthos (Steph. Byz.), Ze:'rybthion (Suid.), Ze:'rinthon (Schol.
> ad Lykophr.), Ze:'rynthon (Etym. M.), Zerynthium (Liv.) - a cave and
> a town on the island of Samothraci and in Thracia. The name can be
> compared to the Lith. river name z^veriñc^ius from the basis z^verint-
> , a derivative from the Lith. verìs `a beast', related to the Old-
> Bulg. zver& `a beast', the Greek the:r - from the IE *g'WHe:r-.
Hekate was linked to this city.
> Harpessós (App.) - river in Thracia, a tributary of Hebros. It can be
> reconstructed as the Thracian *Varpassas (resp. *Varpatyas), which
> was interpreted in Greek as *Arpesos and received the initial H-
> after words such as the Greek hárpax `predatory', hárpe `a falcon'.
> Related to the Thracian name are the Latv. va^rpats `whirlpool', the
> Lith. varpy^ti (-paû, -piaû) `to dig' as well as a number of Baltic
> place names: the Old-Pruss. Warpen, Warpunen, the Lith. river names
> Var^pe, Varputy^s, Várpapievis, etc.
I´d add harpyia < *wrpusya "whirling", and perhaps Norse Gna's horse
Hófvarpnir.