Re: Mokosh?

From: tolgs001
Message: 61096
Date: 2008-10-30

>With so little information, any etymology must be considered
>tentative. A connection with the root *mok- as in *mokrU 'wet',
>*moknoNti 'get wet' and *moky/*mokUve 'wetness, wet ground' (with some
>Baltic cognates) is formally possible but also uncertain.
>
>Piotr

Any link to (1) the Moksha river, tributary of the Oka river (in
Russia); and to (2) the Moksha notion in India?

George