Re: [tied] 3rd millennium chariot = IE?Tautology!

From: S.Kalyanaraman
Message: 24280
Date: 2003-07-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> I, for one, do not identify the
Proto-Indo-European speakers with any > chariot-driving Bronze Age
peoples of Central Asia, so the lack of > support for such an idea
doesn't worry me a whit. :-))

I like the icon, Piotr!

I ain't worried either.

If it wasn't ratha, what would they have called their cart (on
Znamenka stele) and the chariot (on silver goblet of Bactria)? In
Santali, a chariot is called ra~t gad.i.

Kalyan