Re: Greek kitharis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-12-23 01:37, stlatos wrote:
>
> > Also, I never said k > s (or anything similar) before new y. The
> > message in this thread that apparently sparked the recent question is
> > below; complain to him if you disagree.
>
> No need to complain. An obvious blunder on my part, as the present
> discussion of <sitar> has shown. <guitar> and <zither> derive from
> <kítHaris, kitHára>, <sitar> doesn't.
>
> Piotr

He didn't have any need to complain about my answer, but he did
anyway. I don't think you made an obvious blunder; the existence of E
three-peat doesn't mean E repeat isn't related by borrowing to Romance
words. I don't have any way of knowing if folk etymology created a
set of words in this case, so I said nothing.