Re: [tied] Digest Number 591

--- In cybalist@..., liberty@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@..., ravi9@... wrote:
> > - Another common suffix on which I would not mind some

information

> > is - Kanth as in Taskent or Taskanth. Kanth is the edge of the

pond

> > or lake found commonly , at least in North India.
> >
> It's from the Iranian *kanth- "village, town, city" found in such
> words as Yarkand, Samarkand, Tashkent, New Pers. kand "village",
> Pashto kandai "part of a town" and Ossetic kænt "building". Kanth-
> is from the root kan- "to cover" (of roofed buildings and thence to
> an aggregate to form a town).
> -David

Does " Kent " in England have any connection ?

Ravi