Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

> The Oriental theory was developed by Curt Sachs (1916), who claimed
> an Asian origin for the Baltic psalteries, but did not discuss the
> route by which they arrived in the Baltic region nor their path of
> diffusion. He too used linguistic evidence to argue that the word
> kantele and its cognates were derived from the Georgian word
> kankula, which is related to the middle High German cannale, coming
> from the Arabic qanun and Greek kanon. Like Famincyn, he grouped the
> helmet-shaped gusli and Baltic psalteries together. Sachs's theory
> had an influence on western scholars, who propose a relationship
> between the kantele and qanun (for example see Marcuse 1975:221 and
> Falvy 1981)."
>
> So three theories, each with its own etymology, Slavic, Finnic, and
> Georgian!

Møller has a different Semitic connection:
"
3k-n- 'canere' (< voridg. g-n- oder mit spirantischem Anlaut 3-n-),
lat. cano
(entweder < kenó:, vgl. Meillet Les dial. indo-europ. 34, oder lat.
can- < *Xen- < voridg. 3-n-, s. SI. 231 Anm.),
ir. canim 'cano',
gr. `ei-kanós 'Hahn', kanázo: 'gluchze',
ahd. as. hano got. hana an. hani 'Hahn',

= semit. *3-n-, einfach redupl. 3-n-n- in
arab. 3anna 'sonum edidit',
IV `a3anna 'he made one to hear his melodious voice in singing,
(the valley) resounded with the humming of flies';
+ y-
arab. II 3anna: 'he sang or chanted',
hebr. 3a:na: 'als Vorsänger ein Lied anstimmen', Pi. 'singen',
syr. 3an(n)åyå: 'cantor', ma-3niþå: 'hymnus, anti-phonia'.
Vgl. SI. 133.
"


Torsten