[Blog Post] Peter Bakker on the VMS

[Anton]

Regarding the "-tr" words in Russian, there are more. Litre, metre, spectre, register... all these words end in "-tr". I don't think they are Anglo-Russian, because massive borrowing from English began not so early in historical perspective, perhaps they rather were borrowed from German in transit from Latin or Greek. E.g. for German Liter, Meter, Burgermeister, in Russian you have Litr, Metr, Burgomistr, that is the "e" is left out.

There are also words ending with "-dr". Like Kedr (cedar), Kadr (frame), Sidr (cider) or the name Aleksandr (Alexander).

Petr and Aleksandr are from Greek, of course.

I guess there were some words ending in "-tr/-dr" in old Norse, like Baldr (god of Spring) or Gratr (don't know what this means but there's the Helrunar's album called that )