From: george knysh
Message: 12508
Date: 2002-02-26
> If you got "red" from searching the Cologne*****GK: How would you expect this to appear in
> dictionary for "zona" (coming up with <zoNa> 'red'),
> forget it. The dictionary uses the Harvard-Kyoto
> spelling convention, whereby various ASCII
> characters are arbitrarily assigned to "exotic"
> letters to enable the exact transcription of
> Sanskrit in ASCII terms. <zoNa> stands for <s'on.a>,
> with a voiceless palatal initial, unlikely to be
> represented as Greek <z>.
>
> Piotr
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: george knysh
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Scythians, Zoroastrians, etc.
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> *****GK: It could also be "Ala-zona", meaning
> "excellent bay horse"(s). A good "Scythian"
> appellative (cf. also reconstructed "Tri-aspa";
> "Callipidae" (Her. Gk.); and "wild white horses"
> (Her.) The colour "red" indicative of
> south/southwest
> is also appropriate, as is the location on the
> "Hypanis" (a river with an Indian homonym). So
> Pontic
> Indic is possible. But "Thrakoid" can't be ruled out
> given the attested extant vocabulary parallels
> between
> Thracian and Indic (acc. to Duridanov's lexicon
> nearly
> 10%), and of course Iranic can't be ruled out
> either.******
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