Re: Hamster (was: Vanir,etc.)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> 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?

I must admit I know nothing about the history of Lith.
_stãras_ 'ground squirrel, suslik (Citellus)' (thus at least in
Standar Lithuanian). Slavic *storU 'hamster' is unknown to me.

Sergei