Re: [tied] "Fish" in Slavic

On 2006-07-14 23:22, george knysh wrote:

>
> --- Grzegorz Jagodzinski <grzegorj2000@...>
> wrote:
>
>> The common Slavic word for "fish", "ryba" has no
>> clear etymology, and is not
>> related to other IE terms for "fish".
>
> *****GK: Very interesting and worth pursuing a
> bit.Some questions:
>
> (1) Is something akin to "ryba" either in the sense of
> "fish" or fish-like behaviour, known in any other IE
> language? Starting with Baltic, as otherwise closest
> to Slavic.
> (2) Is something etc.. /as above/ known in any other
> (nonIE) language? esp. such as are historical
> neighbours of Slavic. ******

The etymology of *ryba may be less mysterious than it seems to be. See
Toporov's etymology, mentioned here by Sergei a few years ago:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/6014

Piotr