From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 37379
Date: 2005-04-25
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> I asked about Lithuanian nerove "undina, naiad", not about undina.
This came from Latin unda "wave".
Linguists recomends to use nerove (nërovë) instead of undine now.
But I don't know much about that. Maybe they have found something
about that? There is Lithuanian myth about undines (neroves ?) too -
"Jurate ir Kastytis" ("Jurate and Kastytis"). Word NEROVE (NËROVË) is
made from word NERE (NËRË) too. Compare with these words:
GERAS > GEROVE
RAMUS > RAMOVE
TVIRTAS > TVIRTOVE
RANGA > RANGOVAS
RANKA > RANKOVE
VERGAS > VERGOVE
VARE > VAROVAS
Can Lithuanian word BANGA be of same origin as Latin UNDA? Compare
with Lithuanian word VINGIS and Latvian word VINDA, meaning WINDING.
Regards, Eigius