[gothic-l] Re: Danparstadir

[Alburysteve at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 6/28/01 6:48:07 AM Atlantic Daylight Time,
czobor at cantacuzino.ro writes:

> Hi Steve
>
>  In fact, Don, as well as Dniester, Dnieper and also Danube, are
>  regarded by some people as being derived from the same Old Iranic
>  word: danu- "river".
>  In this conception, Dnieper comes from Old Iranic *danu-apara "the
>  river before", and Dniester from *danu-nastya "the river behind" (the
>  Dnieper is before and the Dniester behind when looking from east to
>  west, thus from the point of view of the Iranic peoples).
>
>  Francisc
>
As is the Danube (Danu-apa).  But sure danu "river" must be derived from IE
*deh-nu and is closely connected with a water goddess cognatic forms of whose
name is found in Irish (Danu), Welsh (Don), Greek (Danaus), and Vedic (Danu).
 Odd, though, that the Skythians, speaking an Iranian language, called the
Danube the Tanais.

Rgds,

Steve O'Brien
Albury, Ontario

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