From: Kim Bastin
Message: 36399
Date: 2005-02-19
>That has been suggested, but the Finnish word has cognates outside
>
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "whetex_lewx" <whetex_lewx@...> wrote:
>>
>> Have anybody thoughts about Baltic jura - the sea. Also in Baltic
>> territory are some hydronyms: rivers Jara, Jura and etc...
>>
>> Juru'oti - to welter, to wave.
>>
>> RugiuN laukas juruoja - the field of rye is waving.
>>
>>
>...
>>>'keskellä järveä' "in the middle of the lake", keski-
>> > "middle" in the adessive, järveä inessive of järve "lake).
>> > But one might also see keskellä as an adverb "centrally"
>> > and järveä as "on the lake".
>> >
>
>Finnish, järvi is probably from this source.
>Lithuanian, jáura (swamp).