Re: Harii/Hirri into (H)eruli?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 17173
Date: 2002-12-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 1:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Harii/Hirri into (H)eruli?
>
>
> > Thanks a million for this Piotr. Would you give me
> > permission to cross-post your analysis on the Gothic
> > list?
>
> Certainly, by all means.
>
>
> > ****GK: Here it is (NH IV.xiii): "quidam haec habitari
> > ad Vistlam usque fluvium a Sarmatis, Venedis, Sciris,
> > Hirris tradunt.*****
>
> Thanks. Perhaps it is a misspelling of *Hariis after all; I've seen
stranger things.
>
> Piotr

Is it possible that an s mobile is involved so that Hirri and Sciri
are derived from the same root (but the -r- vs. -rr- would be a
problem)?

Torsten