Re: Accepted cognates of Arya?

From: kalyan97
Message: 12285
Date: 2002-02-05

--- In cybalist@..., "caraculiambro" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> <aryá-> meaning 'hospitable lord' (from <ar-í->) is quite often
> considered as possibly related to *h2al-jo- 'other' (in which
meaning
> Sanskrit utilises its IE competitor, *h1on-jo- > Skt. anya-), the
> semantic process being parallelled by the relation between <hostis>
> and <hospes> in Latin.

How about the point made by Beneveniste (p. 314 in the attachment of
David's earlier message) about prefix ari- in Sanskrit and Greek,
meaning, perhaps 'excellent?' Are there similar prefixes in other IE
languages?