[tied] Re: Why India?

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>as is the fact that nearly all the major rivers of Afghanistan flow
>into Hamun-e Helmand, which therefore fully deserves the designation
><samudrá-> 'the meeting of waters' (*som-udró-).

An (alternative) Old Russian name of Dnieper was probably _So,vodU_.
A NE Iranian calque or an inherited PIE pattern?

Sergei