Re[2]: [tied] Re: IE "River", what are the

At 12:27:27 AM on Saturday, April 9, 2005, george knysh
wrote:

> *****GK: Slavic languages (some? all?) also have "strum"
> which seems close to Germanic strauma. There are a bunch
> of rivers in western Ukraine containing the element
> "-str-" (including the well-known "Dnister, Dnistr" which
> seems a composite name (river+river : Iranic dana- + -str-
> element).

Watkins derives <Dniester> from Scythian *da:nu nazdya
'nearer river, river in front' (*nazdya- 'nearer').

Brian