--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Ocean-going I in the pie meandering through Mesopotamia and
scattering horse bones in its wake?
Emerging (selding-) out of the ice-sheets E in the pie pre-agrarian
land-based nomads spreading out of Afrikkan-Anatolian speakers
catching salmon and finding the equus sivalensis.
Now for the arm-chair semanticists who search for 'meaning' in
meaningless paradigm shifts. No applause, please. Brick-bats welcome.
Brats! I suggest that this word is derived from vrata (duty assigned
to functionaries such as varun.a). Two groups emerge: vra_tya and
ya_jn~ika (one performs on land, the other invents on fire).
More words with meanings.
bha_ratam janam says vis'va_mitra ga_thina. cognates: bhr. 'to bear';
genitrix, 'mother'; vis'va 'world'; mitra 'contract'. The same root
bhr. may also explain bhr.gu or Germanic borg.
sindhu ra_s.t.ra (both R.gvedic terms); cognates, hindu 'natural
ocean frontier' (cf. Thieme); rex 'law'. The word cintu in Tamil
means 'to spill (water)'. It is also applied to the cotton 'sind'
which grows on the black-cotton soil of the sindhu des'a. Cognate of
des'a: dis' 'direction'.
Some spoke Meluhhan. Cognate: Tamil me_r-kku, 'west'. For a guy in
Kuruks.etra or Pu_mpuka_r, meluhhan is a western folk. Mleccha!
Suppose the 'Indus' script is read as Proto-Gujarati or Proto-
kachchi, say, with a munda ad-strate, does it make it Indo-Aryan or
PIE?
The E in the pie is a cousin of the I in the pie. No applause
emerging out of the Hyde park into the internet portals where words
are dissected for phonetic and semantic components.