Re: [tied] Hydronyms and toponyms of Vedic area

george knysh wrote:

> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> wrote:
>> <anu pratnasyaukasa [= pratnasya okasas] huve
>> tuvipratiM naram>
>>
>> "Next, former[gen.] home[gen.] call[1sg.]
>> strongly-resisting[acc.] hero[acc.]"
>>
>> Or, in plain English, "Next, I call him mighty to
>> resist, the hero of our ancient home"
>>
> And (2) something completely different: "Anu" exists
> in Ukrainian as an expression encouraging action,
> deed, movement. Also as "anumo". I'm not sure about
> other Sl. languages (my dictionaries aren't all that
> comnplete). Is this related to the Vedic adverb?*****
>>
>>

....and exist in Romanian under the form "amu" whith se same senses:
now, then, next, afterwards." Would you connect it with "anu"?:-))


amu= cf DEX latin "ad-modo"= popular "acum"= now and it is an adwerb
too.

Alex