Re: the all-from-sanskritists

From: anthonyappleyard
Message: 14089
Date: 2002-07-20

Someone wrote:-
> But in the modern context, isn't "buddha" the root, strictly
> speaking? (But no big diff anyway!)

I thought that Skt. [buddha] came from [bhudh-ta-] and is a perfect
past participle of the same root seen in Greek [peuthomai]. That
means that "Buddha" amd "python" come from the same PIE root!

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