Re: [tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:piotr.gasiorowski@...]

> > 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-.
>

I know. The question remains, who or what is opposed, fought and, for that
matter, knocked down by hamsters?

Sergei