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

george knysh wrote:

> And the prevalence of -str-
> river names around the Dnister (e.g. strypa, strvyazh,
> stryvnyky, stronavka, strynja, stryj etc.) makes the
> dan-+ -str- explanation very inviting. The idea is
> that the upper Dnister was once called by a -str-
> variant, and the lower Dnister (dominated by Iranic
> populations)had a dan- name (though dan- is also a
> Thracian root cf. sandanos).

*str is a common development of *sr in Slavic, Thracian and Germanic,
root-initially but also when the *r is suffixal, as in Istros. The names
in question may well be of mixed origin. Some may be purely sSlavic, but
Strv'az^ (*strUve~z^I) looks Germanic (note the *-ing- suffix), and it
was just yesterday that I came across the name Strypa and thought it
look "Old Europeanish" (as if from *sru-h2p-ah2, with two hydronymic
roots compounded together).

Piotr