Re: Likely IE home: India

From: tgpedersen
Message: 12099
Date: 2002-01-21

> If an informal online source will satisfy you, Cyril Babaev has
> collected some examples:
>
> http://indoeuro.bizland.com/archive/article17.html
>
> I you'd rather read a learned discussion, I can provide some
> references later on.
>
> Piotr

In one website, I saw the name of the Armenian god of war, Vahagn,
explained as coming from *vah- "carry", *agn- "fire", thus a fire-
bringing, Prometheus-like god. If so, judging from *vah-, it must be
Indic, not Iranian (the god himself is a "translation" of the Iranian
god <V&r&Tragna->, but the compound type (verb+object cf. French
<porte-parole> etc) doesn't look right. On the other hand, getting
from V&r&Tragna- to Vahagn, how would you get rid of all those r's?
That does't look right either. Anyone have a solution (an Indian one
would of course be the most interesting)?

Torsten