Re: [tied] Re: Swat River.

See my note on "sh/kh" in Pashto (the northern, or "hard" dialects with "kh" are mostly those used in modern Pakistan) and the etymology of the word. The modern dialectal [x] can hardly go back to very ancient times (it's the southern dialects, spoken in S Afghanistan, that keep the more conservative pronunciation), let alone the RV period. If anything, it's <pars'u-> that could be regarded as the ethnonymic precursor of "Pakhtoon".

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: Swat River.

> Pakhtoons. CNN says 'Pashtuns'. 'Pashtoons' sounds like animated features

VA: Indians call them Pathans while the they themselves call themselves Pakhtoon and their traditional code as Pakhtoonwali. Their language is called Pashtu/Pashto by us. Note that the RV mentions a 'Paktha' who were defeated in the Dasarajna war and Talageri equates them to ansectors of Pathans (whereas Hoffman says that the name simply means 'fifth').