Re: [tied] Fwd: Aryanism and Journal of Indo-European Studies

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Fwd: Aryanism and Journal of
> Indo-European Studies
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> > BTW, we discused "zambru" here; George, is there
> any explanation of this name "Zambara" there in RV?
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> Alex, Sanskrit had no /z/. In the Harvard-Kyoto
> transcription of Sanskrit the Latin _letter_ "z"
> represents the sound we usually spell <s'> ("s" with
> a stroke over it, as in Polish) -- a _voiceless_
> alveopalatal fricative. The word is really
> <s'ambara->. It doesn't even smell like a bison.
>
> Piotr

*****GK: And that's how I should have spelt it.
Apologies for getting someone excited (:=)). It's
"Sambara" in the Griffith transl. and "Zambara" in the
on-line Dictionary.com lexicon (which was already
demonstrated as not always reliable).*****

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