Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia -- typo correction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> --- On Thu, 10/16/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
>
> > Serbian vatra 'fire', Ukrainian vaìtra 'fire, stove'...
>
> Actually also 'vatra' (is your 'vaìtra' a typo?)

Sorry, there was a problem with the conversion of the fonts.
Read: "Ukrainian vátra."

> 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).

The 'stove' meaning is simply the result of Starostin & Lubotsky's
resource being created through a machine-translation (later on
recognized) of Pokorny's dictionary. Thus, German Herd 'hearth,
fireside, cooker, stove (etc.)' becomes just 'a stove'... I should
have checked the original before posting my message! (Note: Some
other English terms appearing in S&L's machine-translations of
Pokorny's dictionary I have quoted today can be imprecise
translations of Pokorny's original German terms!)

I also wrote:

> > Possibl[e] affiliation [of] Irish aìith...

Here the same problem of font conversion occurred. Read: "Irish
áith."

Regards,
Francesco