[tied] Re: PIE *nr-, *nur-?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> I haven't really been following this, but possibly also
> relevant is:
>
> <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/10699>
>
> Vi`lnius is named after a river (the biggest tributary of
> the Niemen) called *Vi`lnia: 'streaming; rippling', which
> later changed its name to Neri`s 'swift,whirly' (indeed!).

In the posting I was mostly following Maz^iulis, who writes (PKEZ^,
s.v. Neria): "It seems to me that this Baltic substantive *neri-
'coming up (to the surface) <-> diving[...]' was the source for, eg.,
Lith. (rivername) <Neri`s>[...], which would thus derive from (subst.)
*'a river of impetuous, *whirling* current' < *'the diving<->coming up
of flows of water etc.' < *'diving<->coming up etc.'".

Sergei