From: george knysh
Message: 13182
Date: 2002-04-10
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>__________________________________________________
> wrote:
> > > (Sergei)An (alternative) Old Russian name of
> Dnieper
> > was
> > > probably _So,vodU_.
> > > A NE Iranian calque or an inherited PIE pattern?
> >
> > *****GK: That's quite interesting. What's your
> source
> > for this probable alternative name?******
> >
>
> Before I recall the source and check it up, here's a
> tentative
> answer: _Samvaton_ (or so?) is mentioned by
> Porphyrogenetes (?) as
> the name of a fortress on a bank of the Dnieper.
> Somehow it was
> supposed to reflected the name of the river rather
> than the features
> of the place it was built in.
>
> Sergei
>
>