Re: [tied] Meteoric iron, self-smelted

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "S.Kalyanaraman"
<kalyan97@...> > wrote:> > I hope some members of the group can
answer what cognates of aujto-> > meant in IE languages.> *******

> Are there cognates in other IE languages, or is Gk. 'autos' an
> orphan?
> Watkins leaves it at the Greek. The online Pokorny under root
> 131 AU- "that", "other" has Gk. 'au' "andreseits", "wiederum", and
> then adds "Brugmann BSGW. 60, 23 a 2 reiht auch gr.[autos] - als
> `von ihm aus' an; andere Deutungen s. bei Schwyzer Gr. Gr. I 613."
> I don't quite understand the German "von ihm aus",

Would aujtos- be comparable to 'asti' (lit. 'is') in Sanskrit? There
is another term in Sanskrit, possibly derived from 'asti':
a_stika 'believer'.

Or, could it be 'auto-' as in auto-matic or self-impelled?