Re: [tied] Re: Parvati

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Parvati


First show your evidence for anything like *pa:r- meaning
'fire' in Indic or any other possible source dialect.
Sanskrit does have agni-vant- and agni-mant-. Why speculate
about unsubstantiated corrupt loans if a perfectly
transparent etymology is available?

Piotr

> Aah, the *-want ending. Hmmm... Then could Parvati derive
from a corrupt or
> dialectal version of "fire" + this -vati: prefix? Hence,
"having fire" or
> "fire-possessor". She kinda possesses Shiva, afterall :)
>
> - gLeN