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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> So, would it have been something akin to "Egh kerd-dhoH2, Djéu
> PH2ter"?
Well if I could "speak" Proto-Indo-European, I would
simply translate your sentence for you, but I'm afraid
that I can't. I can at least tell you, though, that
'I' isn't *egh, that *dheH- should be inflected, and
that I'm pretty sure the pronoun 'thee' needs to be
included.
> And is *bhlaghman right for a priest / member of the topmost
> caste? The roots site didn't say.
No. The Latin 'flamen' and Indo-Aryan 'brahman' aren't
cognates, as was once supposed, and the latter can be
traced no farther back than Proto-Indo-Iranian.
I've uploaded to the files section some excerpts on the
etymology of 'brahman' from Benveniste's 'Indo-European
Language and Society' and H. W. Bailey's 'The Culture
of the Sakas in Ancient Iranian Khotan'.
David