[tied] Re: *ap-/*up-/*ip- , rivers in -r, JURA, JARA

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>
> >
> > Derksen has analyzed something.
> > Baltic variant forms:
> > Lith.
> > ja/ura (acute)- a swamp, a mire
> > jaur\us (grave)- swampy
> > ju:/ra (acute) - the sea
> > ju:ru/oti (grave) - to wave
> > ju:/re: - the sea (dial.)
> > Latv.
> > ju~ra - the sea
> > ju~re (dial.)
> > jure
> > juris
> > Old Prussian.
> > iuriay
> > iurin (accs) < *iuris
> > Slavic variant forms:
> > East
> > i'rej - strong wind
> > (v)yrij - warm lands to which birds migrate, over the sea
> > south
> > ir - whirlpool, abyss
>
> It occurs in Baltic, Slavic and Balto-Finnic (Saami, Mordvin,

Mari),

> and therefore:
>
> > So probably from PIE iuHr-eh2...
>
> ?
>
>
> Torsten

Balto-Finnic could be influented by ancient Baltic (IE) habitat in
the east (Oka's basin, upper Volga, Eastern Corded Ware culture)
after 1800 BC.