[tied] Re: Vanir,etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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-.

Hamsters are thieves and fighters. I can assure it! I had a woman
that was very vain. She loved cloths over all other things. Her
daughter (a she-devil) had a hamster with an ugly stomach cancer.
Once my lover left a precious cloth near the hamster cage, and the
ill rodent damaged it, so she casted the little animal in the W.C.! A
terrible story!
The etymon offered by Pokorny is the only one credible even it is a
little strange, I admit.

Sincerely

Marco