Re: [tied] Baltic-Slavic disintegration

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- Joao <josimo70@...> wrote:
> > Was there any attempt to analyze etymologically the
> > word Neuros (pl.Neuroi) ? Any Balto-Slavic etmology
> > for it? Something like *Njauras or *Nev( )ras ?
>
> *****GK: I've read of some attempts to etymologize
> this on the basis of Baltic materials, but can't
> remember the specifics (analogies to river names like
> Narev and Narva I think). Perhaps one of our linguists
> could clarify.*****

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Even you are not sure about the proper form, I think that it is very
similar to Illyrian place name Narona (today Norin, due to replacing
of Illyrian suffix -ona with probably Slavic genitive ending -in and
regular evolution a > o). According to Pokorny, the root is *ner-
3 'to conceal, cover, hiding place, hollow'.

Konushevci