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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "wtsdv" <liberty@...> wrote: The
original > sense of "pa:tra-" was clearly "drinking vessel", from
> the Indo-Aryan reflex of *po:(i)- "to drink", with the
> Indo-Aryan reflex of the suffix *-tro, which forms the > names of
instruments. The entry you quoted had a link > to another on *po:
(i)-, appearing above as "p(i)-". > Did you follow it?
The suffix -tra also occurs in another soma related instrument:
pavitram which is explained a filter by Louis Renou. Fire is the
pavitram.