Hamster (was: 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-.

What are the implications for the Balto-Slavonic *storos ( >
Lithuanian _staras_ 'hamster') that João mentioned in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/18724 ? Do we assume
an abbreviated form?

Richard.