Re: Etymology of "Warsaw"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> On 9/3/04 1:13 PM, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > PIE *wer-s- "rain" ?
>
> Far-fetched, and doesn't account for the suffix. Warsaw isn't more

rainy

> than the rest of the country.
>

It means "humidity" too. If it is that root, then it's from a
language where *e > *a and after RUKI *s > *s^ (not *x as is
Slavic). And if it isn't Slavic, there's no need to reject the
Baltic parallels. Temematic (except I forgot the rules of that
hypothetical substrate language)?

Torsten