From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 37051 Date: 2005-04-11
george knysh wrote:
> ****GK: *sr may also develop into *str in Baltic? Cf.
> "Istr" a river near Moscow***
Yes, though in Baltic the development of *sr/*s^r > str/s^tr is
dialectally constrained. Of course any Baltic name with *sr could have
received an epenthetic *t upon being borrowed by the Slavs.