From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4860
Date: 2000-11-26
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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 2:09 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] leopard
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:53:32 -0200, João Simões Lopes Filho
> <jodan99@...> wrote:
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> >Sanskrit PRDAKU- Russian PARS Greek PARDOS, PARDALIS, PORDALIS
> >
> >PIE word?
> >Russian < Scythian?
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> Russian <bars>, according to Gamqrelidze & Ivanov, is borrowed from
> Turkic <ba:rs>, in turn from Persian <pa:rs>.
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> G & I (not unexpectedly) claim that the word is PIE, based on Hitt.
> <parsana>, the Persian word, as well as the Grk. and Skt. forms you
> mention above (plus Sogdian <pwrD'nk>). I don't recall how they want
> to explain the *pard- ~ *pars- alternation. Not very likely.
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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