PIE *nr-, *nur-?

Dear listmembers,

As a side note to Giuseppe's message copied below: a Wikipedia
article states the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nur
<< *nur is a Proto-Indo-European root denoting water or river. As
such it is a part of several river and city names in Europe,
including Narew, Narva and Neretva. >>

From another Wikipedia article:

<< [The river] Narew originates in Belarus and flows into the
Vistula river in Poland........The name of the river comes from a
Proto-Indo-European root *nr primarily associated with water
(compare with Narva, Neretva, Neris, Ner and Nur). >>

What is the linguistic basis for the reconstruction of these PIE
roots supposedly associated with water bodies or rivers, *nr- and
*nur-? They are not found in Pokorny!

Thanks and best regards,
Francesco




--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Fortunati Giuseppe"
<fgiusepp2@...> wrote:

>
> CybalistNahar root indo-european Narnia in Italy
>
>
> The History on the Nera river and in the Valnerina valley.
>
> In the IV-II sec. b.C., Roman peoples come to the land in

umbria , where

> live the Naharci peoples (this word come from Nahar, the river

Nera). On

> said that this peoples come from indo-europe .
> Are possible that
>
> come from the Narva Culture.
>
> The Narva or Narova is a river which drains the Lake Peipus,

flowing on the

> border of Estonia and Russia.
>
> It flows through the cities of Narva/Ivangorod and Narva-Jõesuu

into Narva

> Bay, a part of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea. The Narva

Reservoir, a

> large artificial lake (191 km²), was formed on the river in 1956.

The length

> of the river is 75 km, average width 300 metres and depth 5

metres. The

> largest tributary is the Plyussa River. The river gives its name

to the

> Narva culture.
>
> Narva culture, ca. 5th to 4th millennium BC, an archaeological

culture found

> in present-day Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Kaliningrad Oblast

(former East

> Prussia), and adjacent portions of Poland and Russia.
>
> see also:
>
>

http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/hum/kultt/vk/kriiska/tekstid/04.
html

>
> http://www.lithuanian.net/mitai/cosmos/baltai.htm
>