--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> <ahura-> is thought to be related to Germanic *ans-u-z, with *ns-u-
> *IIr. asu- > Iranian *ahu-.
This is fascinating, Piotr.
What would be the semantics of Germanic *ans-u-z?
I request help on this because, there is another tough word in Vedic
which has been variously interpreted while attempts (about 43 so far)
have been made to interpret, another tough word,'soma', sometimes as
a plant, say, ephedra.
Soma is described in Vedic texts, for e.g. as am.s'u-mant.
Would am.s'u mean, 'a beam (tongue) of fire'? If so, the description
of soma with the epithet, am.s'su may refer to the streaks of
minerals embedded in, say, a rock of quartz...
The word, am.s'u is explained as follows in the Sanskrit lexicon:
aMzu = m. a filament (especially of the Soma plant) ; a kind of Soma
libation S3Br. ; thread ; end of a thread , a minute particle [1,2] ;
a point , end ; array , sunbeam ; cloth L. ; N. of a R2ishi RV.
viii , 5 , 26 ; of an ancient Vedic teacher , son of a Dhanam2jaya
VBr. ; of a prince.
Source:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/ aMzu