From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 21733
Date: 2003-05-11
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>No.
>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?