Re: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

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From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:21 AM
Subject: RE: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.


> I can hardly imagine what would be the source of *e^ in Slavic *xome^storU
> in that case. A folk-etymological rebuilding? I also vaguely remember
> Trubachev's Slavic etymology: from *xome^-storU 'in the cheeck pouches
> (dual) - putting'. Not that *xom- and *stor- etyma looked familiar to
me...

It has been compared with Avestan hamae:star- 'fighter, opponent' < *sam- +
(s)meit-tor- 'he who knocks down' (Pokorny under *smeit-), PIr. *hamaistar-.

Piotr