--- Claudius Salix Davianus <
davius_sanctex@...>
wrote:
> Can you say what are the avestic and old persian (or
> other) cognates of the scythian words, that
> Herodotus gave:
>
> pata ' to kill' < IE pet- (?)
> spou 'eye' < IE. *ok_w (?)
> arima 'one' = old irsh ar�m , greek arithmos
> (?)
> oior 'man'
>
> David S�nchez
****GK I remain convinced that these words are from
the "Thrakoid" Scythian lexicon. At the risk of
eliciting the ire of our professional linguists, I
still think that there is a relationship between
"oior" and "vir", and between "spou,spu" [=eye] and
words such as Lat. "specio" Sskr "spasati" and OHG
"spehon" (=to see, observe, keep an eye on). Does Old
Irish "ar*a?*m" mean "one" or "single"?== And as for
"pata" I can think of Slavic words which seem vaguely
similar (with or without a stretch) such as "biti"
(hit, strike, kill)or "batog, batih" (whip)****
>
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