Re: [tied] What is *IE for Soma?

14-12-03 00:14, S.Kalyanaraman wrote:

> Soma, hauma are attested.
>
> This was a commodity, a product (since soma was purchased in
> cartloads). Are there cognates in other IE languages?
>
> What could be *IE?

Skt. soma-, Av. haoma-, etc. < Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáuma-, a derivative
of {su-} as in Skt. sunoti '(he) presses'. The root *seu- 'press out,
extract liquid' is IE with a number of cognates outside IIr. (cf. Gk.
huei 'it rains'), and *sóu-mo-s is an expected derivative meaning 'that
whis is pressed out, juice' (it could of course be applied metonymically
to a juice-giving plant).

Piotr