Re: [tied] Hung. toponyms [Re: Romanian Loan in OCS?]

18-10-03 11:10, tolgs001 wrote:

> Szalmas ['sOlmOS] < szalma "straw;" Szarvas ['sOrvOS] < szarvas
> "deer" (verbatim: "horned" or "having antlers" < <szaru> and
> <szarv> meaning "horn," "antler" and corneal matter -
> whence e.g. <szaruhártya> "(eye) cornea").

Before Egijus starts spinning his Thraco-Baltic yarns, let me just add
that <szalma> is a loan from Slavic ans <szarv> reflects an older
(Finno-Ugric) loan from Iranian. Of course similar (and related) words
occur in the Baltic languages, but that's little wonder, since Baltic,
Slavic and Iranian are all (Satem) Indo-European with a lot of common
inheritance.

Piotr