Talk:Nurzec

Herodotus, Neuroi, the Nurzec river, and Nur, Poland

According to Herodotus (approx 450 BCE) the Neuri ( Νέυροι ) were a tribe living North of the Tyres ( Dneister river ), and the furthest nation beyond the Scythian farmers along the course of the river Hypanis (Bug river). The Bug river flows into the Naura ( Baltic name for the Narew ) river. Herodotus also mentions the wild white horses nearby that grazed by a great lake, which scholars today suggest are the Podlesie marshes by the Bialowieza Forest. Yotvingian Tarpans from the Bialowieza Forest seasonally faded to near white in Winter. In 500 BCE, Eastern Europe climate was much cooler and wetter. There is still a town in Poland named Nur ( Νυρ ) { 52° 40' 0" N, 22° 18' 0" E } along the Bug River, near the Bialowieza Forest. There is also the Nurzec river not very far away, in same old West Baltic language region. Traditionally, Baltic ethnonyms are derived from hydronyms. The local hydronym may possibly have been derived from a verbal root * " niur- ", meaning " to get murky ". The local West Balts would then be called the " Niurai ". If the probable verbal root was * " nur- ", meaning " to immerse ", then the locals would be known as " Nurai ".

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Sudowite 11:47, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Do you have a text reference for the passage. If you do it would be nice to add it to the article (and the Western Bug article). Ajh1492 (talk) 14:45, 19 January 2010 (UTC)