Re: Loha, copper, red: any IE cognates?

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:> The
word /luh/ (also found as /lah/) means "to wash"... hence

> /urudu luhh-a/ "of washed copper" (If I recall the Sumerian genitive
> is -a(k)). This is in fact the translation found on the site.
> At any rate, since /luh/ means "wash", it should be painfully clear
> at this point that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Sanskrit
> "red" word and to persist with this fantasy means fighting against
> reasoning in favour of hopeless ignorance.

I am sorry, the spelling should have been: URUDU-LUHHA. Thanks for
the info. on Sumerian meaning, 'to wash'. But in Sanskrit, rudhira is
red and so is loha = red, copper.

Thanks for the help.