Re: [tied] Avestan ? Please, please, please

There was attempts to explain Tishtrya as <*tri-str-iyo- "of the three stars"

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From: A.

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Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:13 AM

Subject: [tied] Avestan ? Please, please, please

I'd just like you all to know that when I ask these random questions, there really is a reason... and hopefully in the next month or two all this research should pan out with a few articles being posted to the PIE religion list. Having said that, I am hoping you all can help me out yet again. I am researching a group of related items and am trying to understand the roots and etymologies of their names: 1) The Zoroastrian deity Tishtrya 2) The supposed Vedic correlate Tishya 3) How Tishtrya produces the later name Tir for the same deity 4) Tishtrya's foe the Zoroastrian Pairika Duzyairya (aka Huyairya ) A great many thanks for any help you can provide, Aydan