Re: IE "River", what are the

<Did none ever dwell in the area between the two rivers?>
I did. It's called Tansnistria nowadays ;-)



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
<liberty@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
> > --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Watkins derives <Dniester> from Scythian *da:nu nazdya 'nearer
> > > river, river in front' (*nazdya- 'nearer').
> >
> > ****GK: This is usually coupled with a similar "all-Scythian"
> > etymology for the Dnipro/Dnieper, as "Danuapara" = the 'further'
> > river.
>
> 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?
>
> David