Re: [tied] Thracian place-names

george knysh wrote:

> *****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.******

so far I remember , In Moldavia people stil use the name "Tura" but the
word has no meaning (actually, so far I know) for making any connection
regarding the meaning.


Alex




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