Re: [tied] Old Rus' of the many "nationes"

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., "Alexander Stolbov"
> <astolbov@...> wrote:
>> > BTW, in Northern Russian dialects "dunaj" means
> "brook, small
> stream".

****GK: According to my sources, it has similar
meanings in Ukrainian and Polish (and other ones as
well, but all related to "water"). Seems pretty
ubiquitous. There is also a little river "Dunaj" in
Southern Poland, as well as others in the area of the
Notec and of the Warta****

> >(AS) In the basin of Dnieper there are a lot of

rivers

> with names
> Dunaets and
> > Dunavets.

*****GK: And "Dunajchyk", "Sukhyj Dunajets" et
sim.****

> > >(ST) The Dnieper is first mentioned in a Greek

source

> in the form
> > > Da'napris.
> >
> > [A.S.]
> > Do you mean Periplus Ponti Euxini? Unfortunately I
> know almost
> nothing about
> > this source. In which context Danapris was
> mentioned there?

****GK: This seems to be a "handbook for sailors" acc.
to my sources. Dated variously from the 4th or 5th c.
A.D. Haven't seen it, but it sounds similar to Pliny's
sequences of towns and rivers. That is also the source
which offers the "Zoroastrian" name of Crimean
Theodosia (=Artabda).*****

>

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