Re: Greek kitharis

--- On Fri, 12/19/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:

> From: Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Greek kitharis
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 3:59 AM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos"
> <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest PIE *kantlom 'musical instrument
> [stringed]' >
> *ky~tHry~
> > > *kytHary in an Indo-Iranian language with
> features like an > y
> (in
> > some Nuristani) tr > tHr (Khowar, etc.), and
> V-insertion (id., many
> > others); from there borrowed widely.
>
> My point is: If there exists an IE root underlying both
> Greek
> kitharis/kithara and Persian seta:r/sehta:r, the etymology
> for the
> latter term proposed by almost ALL dictionaries and
> musicological
> works I have consulted ('three-stringed', from
> Pers. se:/seh 'three'
> + ta:r 'string') should be considered a folk one.
> Is this likely?
>
> Regards,
> Francesco

My family from West Virginia claim they invented the guitar --because it has a string for every finger ;p