--- Eigius <
segijus@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >> GK: Is that more plausible than the multiple
> >> local "str" variants esp. the Thrakoid ones? The
> >> Dnister already had a well known Iranic name
> (Tyras)
> >> with the same meaning ("swift, strong")
>
> Can name Tyras be related to Lithuanian word
> TYRAS, meaning PURE?
*****GK: Most linguists seem to think that the Iranic
explanation is OK. V.P. Petrov ("Etnogenez Slovjan",
Kyiv: Naukova Dumka 1972, p. 69) tried to find a
Baltic explanation (from Lith. tyras allegedly meaning
"wilderness,swamp, marsh", and pointing to Lith.
hydronyms like tyrelis, tyrupis) but this seems
questionable. One wonders if "tyras" might not be a
Getan word, with a meaning similar to the Iranic. A.O.
Bilets'kyj thought that Tyras was "pre-Iranic" (cf.
"Problema movy Skifiv" in the journal MOVOZNAVSTVO
(1953), p. 80) but did not specify any
identities.******
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