Re: [tied] "Fish" in Slavic

>>From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On
>>Behalf Of Grzegorz Jagodzinski

>> The Toporov's hypothesis (on a link between "ryba" and "*re,b-"
>>'colourful, spotted') is also inconvincible because of both

phonetical

>>and semantic problems, especially y2 (y : e,) is problematic.

It is, but cf. Slav. *ly''ko, Lith. lùnkas, Latv. lûks, OPruss.
<lunkan> 'bast' for the possibility of Slav. *y'' < *nH,*mH in inlaut.

Sergei