[SPAM] [tied] Re: Ramsons [was: Felice Vinci's "Homer in the Baltic"

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

>
> On 2009-06-08 12:38, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > 'Stinker' is not prosaic enough for you? ;-)
> > But how would an epithet of grazing set it apart from other grazing
> > animals?
>
> *wes- often implies eating one's full (as in Goth. wisan 'live
> sumptuosly, make merry' or Lat. ve:scor) -- so not just _any_ grazer
> but the Big Grazer (40-60 kg a day).

Interesting move. That would undercut any attempt to introduce Uralic elements in Polish onomastics such as you do here too:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/18081

BTW, how come the rule -s-R- -> -ks-R- in Wisl/a vs. Weichsel occurs also in Lith. (tukstantis) and Finnish (one of the declinations has nom. -s, gen. -ksen, Sibeliuksen, Nurmeksen)?

And also, since the *wis- root means "green" besides "stinking; toxic", as an epithet of rivers it perhaps just meant "full of duckweed etc"?


Torsten