Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

From: george knysh
Message: 60962
Date: 2008-10-16

--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:



Avestan a:tar...'fire' ...;
Armenian airem 'burns, lights' (due to form *air- from *a:te:r);
Serbian vatra 'fire', Ukrainian vaìtra 'fire, stove',

****GK: actually also 'vatra' (is your 'vaitra' a typo?) I've never heard or read of the 'stove' meaning, but I'll check. The usual sense is 'fire' esp.'campfire'(scouts love the word(:=)).****

Polish
vatra 'straw cinder' are borrowed... from Rumanian vatra 'stove',
[this] again from Albanian (Geg votrë, votër with v-suggestion
before Albanian ot- from *a:t-, perhaps Iranian loanword).

...

Possibl[e] affiliation [of] Irish aìith..., Welsh odyn 'oven,
stove'..."

Best,
Francesco