From: Glen Gordon
Message: 14889
Date: 2002-09-01
>Last time I checked, the jury was still out on whether Old Indo-AryanWait, I forget... where does the word "black" come from?
><brahman-> and Latin <flamen> were related or just similar-looking. If
>cognate, they would have to be reconstructed as something like
>*bHlag^H-men- (thus in Pokorny's dictionary), the root *bHlag^H- being
>otherwise unknown
>and so conveniently obscure that you may attribute any meaning to it.