Re: [tied] *gwhor-n0- 'furnace'; is an Indo-Iranian form attested?

01-03-2004 05:55, S.Kalyanaraman wrote:

> Suffixed o-grade form *gwhor-no-. a. fornax, furnace, hornito, from
> Latin furnus, fornus, forna_x, oven; *gwhr-. a. burn from Old
> English beornan, byrnan (intransitive) and bærnan (transitive), to
> burn; ?forge. Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin
> *faurga, from Latin fabrica, from faber, worker. ?hearth. Middle
> English herth, from Old English heorth. (Bartleby).
>
> bhra_s.t.ra = fried or cooked in a frying-pan (Pa_n.ini 4-2 , 16);
> bhat.a = furnace, brick kiln; bhat.i = oven, kiln (Santali)
>
> gharma (root: ghr.) = heat , warmth (of the sun or of fire)(R.gveda)

You don't have to reinvent the wheel. Any good etymological dictionary
will tell you that <gHarmá-> is related to <forna:x> etc. (and to Gk.
<tHermos>, for example); there's no mystery about it. But it isn't
related to <hearth>, and I don't believe, pace Watkins, that <burn>
comes from the same root (while I do believe that <warm> does).
<bHra:s.t.ta-> doesn't belong here either.

Piotr