Re: [tied] Wheeled vehicles

--- ravi9@... wrote:

> >
> Yumuna, Yumna, Yamna, Jumuna , Jamna, are names for
> the Indian river
> Yumuna which is a tributary to the ganga. It was
> also supposed to be
> a main tributary to the Sarasvati, till the course
> changed due to
> tectonic movements( this without going into
> discussions of where the
> original Srarsvati flowed- that debate can continue
> elsewehere).
>
> Is there any etymological connection between the two
> uses of Yamna,
> and Yumna ?( to me both 'sound' the same !)

*****GK: In this case the explanation seems very
simple. "Yamna" (Ukr. ) or "Yamnaya" (Russ.) is just a
name archaeologists affixed to particular cultural
manifestations in southeast Europe. It merely goes
back to a Slavic word meaning "hole", chosen because
of some of the culture's burial characteristics. If I
remember correctly it's the Russian archaeologist
Gorodtsov who came up with the name.*****

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