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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> > 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.

Thanks, Piotr. As I had noted, the first part is taken from Bartleby
dictionary. gharma has another Skt. form ghrn.oti.

Are any Indo-Iranian or Hittite forms attested? How would
bhra_s.t.ra be explained?