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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 37022
Date: 2005-04-09

> *****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). Perhaps
> the historical lower Danube belongs to this -str-
> network? I-str I-ster.******
>

Baskophiles rejoice: Is-str.


Torsten