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

At 7:12:14 AM on Tuesday, April 12, 2005, tgpedersen wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>> tgpedersen wrote:

>>> Do you propose the same origin for Danish 'ising', that
>>> strong vigorous flatfish, living among other places on
>>> the bottom of the strong vigorous inlet of Isefjord in
>>> northern Sjælland?

>> No, why should I?

> Because is- occurs in hydronyms all over Europe, and it
> would be nice to have single origin for them all. Do you
> have any IE proposals for 'ising' and 'Isefjord'?

I don't know about that Isefjord, but <Isefjær> in
<Isefjærfjorden> (fjord in Lillesand commune) is taken to be
from ON *Ísafjo,rðr, from the gen.pl. of <íss> 'ice' and
<fjo,rðr>.

Brian