Re: Res: [tied] Etymology of Rome

On 2007-03-08 19:45, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> You're absolutely right. There is no Skt. ra:man.
> The Skt. form is an o-stem (or o/a:-adjective), from
> *h1rom-o-, giving ra:ma-, as expected.
>
> There is an Avestan ra:man-, from another root (*h1reH-men-,
> Pokorny er(@)-). The form is incorrectly cited by Pokorny
> under *rem(@)- (= *h1rem-), cf. Lubotsky's "Indo-Aryan
> inherited lexicon". It's possible (especially if *h1reH- is
> *hreh2-), that the two roots are ultinately related, like
> *gWeh2- and *gWem-.

Possibly connected with Gk. ere:mos 'lonely, desolate' (with old /e:/,
thus apparently *h1réh1-mo- with *h1 rather than *h2), cf. IIr. *HrH-mó-
'still, motionless', and Lat. ra:rus < *h1r.H-ró-. How, then, about
deriving <Ro:ma> from *(h1)roH-máh2 'seclusion' (or 'resting-place', or
the like), the O-fix derivative of *h1réH-mn.?

Piotr