Re: IE "River", what are the

From: etherman23
Message: 37003
Date: 2005-04-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> What the diverse names for "river" around the IE languages?
>
> Latin: ri:vus, flu:men, fluvius, amnis
> Greek potamos, rheuma
> Germanic strauma-, bro:ka-
> Slavic:
> Lithuanian:
> Latvian:
> Prussian:
> Hittite:
> Sanskrit: sindhu
> Avestic:
> Celtic:

Old Irish abhann