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

--- david_russell_watson <liberty@...> wrote:

>
> Are they really "nearer" and "further", or rather
> "to the front"
> and "to the rear"?
>
> From page 78 of 'In Search of the Indo-Europeans':
>
> "The distribution of Iranian river names in Eastern
> Europe.
> These include the major rivers whose names are
> built from
> the Iranian word danu- 'river', whence the Don, the
> Dnieper
> (from *danu apara 'river to the rear') and Dniester
> (*danu
> nazdya- 'river to the front')."
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> > The problem here is historical. We know of no
> Scythian groups
> > for whom the Dnister would have been 'nearer' and
> the Dnipro
> > 'further' except those of the Dobrudja.
>
> Did none ever dwell in the area between the two
> rivers?

*****GK: I can't name any significant discrete Iranic
Scythian group between Dnister and Dnipro. There is
also the matter of the Boh (Bog) (=Hypanis), a pretty
important river, which would have been "rear" to the
Alizones, but their iranism is doubtful (and generally
speaking there are practically no indubitable Iranic
river names west of the Dnipro, and very many east
thereof). One might think of the Sarmatian Yazigi, but
their "front" was the Danube. And the Aorsi had
different boundaries. So what looks interesting at
first glance doesn't hold up to analysis.*****



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