[tied] Re: Almost NO Indian or Iranian scholars active in IE lingui

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 31281
Date: 2004-02-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> 29-02-2004 00:28, mkelkar2003 wrote:
>
> > "For example, a hypothesis was advanced regarding the original
> > homeland of the Indo-Europeans taking the postulated world *mori,
> > "sea" to have been known only in Europe and Ossetic. But this is
> > wrong since these linguists d(o) not know that Kashmiri, an Indo-
Aryan
> > language, has precisely the same word in the orginal meaning of
swamp,
> > marsh land or lake (p. 27)."
>
> The distribution of *mori- means nothing by itself -- not enough
at any
> rate to base any hypotheses on. At most, its attested semantics
suggests
> that the people who had it in their vocabulary lived not far from
some
> kind of 'big water'. If the word was really PIE it may have been
lost in
> some groups for whatever reason. If Ossetic mal 'a body of deep
water'
> indeed comes from inherited *marja- < *mor-j-o- (cf. Slavic
*morje)
> rather than being a loan, that can only mean that the word did
exist in
> Proto-Iranian and has been lost in most of its offspring (cf. PIE
> *pork^o- 'young pig', _almost_ but not _completely_ lost in Indo-
Iranian).
>
> > Even in Marathi "mori" means a place to wash, which in the old
days
> > before plumbing must have meant a place where water is readily
> > available. In an urabn environment people now use it to
indicate a
> > bathroom or sometimes a sink. This goes back to my original
comment
> > about Indian scholars, for whatever reason, and i am not
accusing any
> > one of anything, being marginalized in the field of IE
linguistic.
>
> I leave the etymology to professional Indologists, who are better
> qualified to judge if we are dealing with a surviving reflex of
*mori-
> or with a chance resemblance. It's beyond my understanding in what
way
> this question is connected with your original comment. Anyway, the
> linguistic question is welcome here, but, please, let's keep the
OT
> stuff out of Cybalist.
>
> Piotr
************
It's quite interesting that Alb. seems to have basic root with *mer-
in verb <përmjerr> 'to piss, to pee, to piddle', <përmirrem> 'to wet
oneself, to pass water> (probably with expressiv /rr/), besides many
place names, where the river flows across them, like: Mir•ushë,
Mir•akë, Mir•at•ovc, Mir•enë, even very intriguing and much
discussed horonym Mirë•dita in Albanian and place name in Macedonia
too.

Konushevci