--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> It's a different
word. PIE *h2ste:r (PGmc. *ster-n-o:n-, Greek aste:r, etc.) survives as
Vedic
> {stR}/{ta:r}, a defective irregular
noun, cf. nom.pl. ta:raH < *(h2s)ter-es, instr.pl. stRbHiH <
> *(h2)str-bHis, and in derivatives, cf.
ta:ra:-patHa- 'starpath' (a kenning for 'the sky'). A better
> preserved form (<sta:r->) occurs
in Avesta.
>
> Piotr
If the Ossetic st’aly “star” is not a Caucasian loan, how did it
acquire a glottal ejective?
David