It's semantically similar to Lat. grex
(greg-) 'flock, troop, multitude' but cannot be directly related to it unless
both represent "extensions" of a simpler root like *ger-, which (while not
impossible) has little evidence to support it (I personally doubt the validity
of reconstructing the verb root *h2ger- 'gather' and adding Gk. ageirein,
agora: to this etymon). A more promising connection, in my opinion, is with
Germanic *kram- < pre-Gmc. *grom- 'cram, press' (OE crammian, ON kremja,
kram-d-) and perhaps with Slavic *gromada 'crowd, multitude, community'. Skt.
grá:ma- would then be reconstructed as *grómo-s, with the first vowel lengthened
by Brugmann's Law.
Piotr
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Subject: [tied] Re: grAma (sanskrit)
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"naga_ganesan" <naga_ganesan@......>
wrote:
>
> Is the word, grAma 'hamlet, village' an IE word?
>
> If so what are its cognates in Iranian and European
>
languages?
>
> Thanks,
> N. Ganesan
grAma is more like
'gathering'. It's IE cognates are in words like
aggregate, congregate,
segragate, etc