Re: Mitanni and Matsya

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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Mitanni and Matsya


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> Aru- probably is related to Arya-,

What is 'aru-', to what language does it belong, and what
reason do we have to believe it's related to 'arya-'?

> which probably means 'pale-colored'.

We have no certain etymology for 'arya-', which means that
nobody can say that it "probably" means 'pale-colored'.

In fact, the only possible cognates of 'arya-' of which I
am aware, are the Greek 'ari-' and the Latin 'alius', and
neither has anything to do with color.

David

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I guess you must not have access to Pokorny.

Pokorny has 3. *ar-, 'nut'. What color are nuts usually?

Secondly, you are neglecting PIE root structure, which is *CV or *CVC.

*ar- = *CVC, I.e. *Ha(:)r- or *H2er- as some would have it.

Neither *aru- nor *ario- can be PIE roots.

Since the root comes first, we have *Ha(:)r-u- and *Ha(:)r-i-o- with the *i
representing derivative -*y(V).

PIE *Ha(:)r- has other meanings besides 'pale'.


Patrick

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