---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <eyunnis@...> wrote :
> Unfortunately, I could not
understand French to get into details as how haya and Ji related. But I
know that > Armenia is also called Hayastan. But the information I have
is that Haya in hayastan is a non indoeuropean > term. Probably something
related to progeny of Noah or Japhet which is a non indoeuropean theme.
So got > confused if Armenians were indoeuropeans!!
Armenian _ji_ < PIE g^he:yos. Sanskrit _haya_ < PIE g^heyos. The discrepancy between a long vowel and a short vowel may not be significant, though I would not be surprised if it resulted from the word becoming an o-stem independently in the two branches. The Sanskrit evidence suggests derivation from a cry to encourage animals to move, and the derivation would be parallel to the English _gee_, _geegee_ 'horse'. (Actually, I'm not sure that the simplex noun _gee_ occurs outside the _Pirates of Penzance_ - 'You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a
gee.')