Re: Where does the name come from?

Dusan Vukotic wrote:

Try to THINK instead of just reacting!

I react beacause I don't like affronts, and I consider those addressed to a third person in a message direct to me particularly unpleasant.

No one expects you to believe anything.

In a previous message you wrote: "It seems that the ancient man understood that WATER must be FETTERED
(Serb. OKOVANA) in order to keep it in one place; otherwise it would
have disappeared, evaporated or sucked in by the soil."

Well, I've searched for 'water' in the huge etymological database of Starostin, I found 99 records, and all pertaining the common notions related to water: scatter, pour, river, spring, flow, watercourse,stream, fish, sea, fount, current, wet, soak, bouillon, pool, pond wash, rinse, fluctuate,fluid, cascade, float, urine, flood, juice, dive, milk, and so on. I've searched for 'sea', with the same results.
Viceversa, all the words related to 'fetter' show no connection with water: part of shoulder, joint, string, cord, bond, chain, cangue, knot, loop, net, harness ,handcuffs.
So, have men belonging to more then hundred different languages asininely related water to its properties and were only Serbians referred by you so smart to relate water to fetter?
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