Re: [tied] Thracian place-names

> george knysh wrote:

>>of which Dana- per/ Dana- pris is the
>>much later metathesized variant (the analysis offered
>>in Stryzhak, op. cit., pp.15-18, 28-30 appears
>>conclusive). The Slavic "e", according to Bernstein,
>>is already prefigured in Thracian "Danedebai" et
>>sim.****

P.S. I have no access to Stryzhak's work, so I can't check the details
of the analysis, but hydronymic speculation is rarely conclusive (the
same applies to my own conjectures, of course). Borus-thene:- >
Dana-pri-? Well, only if the consonants count for little and the vowels
for nothing at all, unless I'm missing something important.

Piotr