From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18003
Date: 2003-01-23
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Fwd: Aryanism and Journal of Indo-European Studies
> BTW, we discused "zambru" here; George, is there any explanation of this name "Zambara" there in RV?
Alex, Sanskrit had no /z/. In the Harvard-Kyoto transcription of Sanskrit the Latin _letter_ "z" represents the sound we usually spell <s'> ("s" with a stroke over it, as in Polish) -- a _voiceless_ alveopalatal fricative. The word is really <s'ambara->. It doesn't even smell like a bison.
Piotr