Re: [tied] Sanskrit to German ?

On 05-03-16 13:17, A. wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> wrote a nice concise explanation.....
>
> Thank you for that, it certainly helps explain a few things. It also
> gives rise to interesting speculations such as:
> Vedic Prthivi would translate to Frthivi (the first part being Frith
> and suggestive of the Germanic Vanir)

Life's stranger that you would imagine. Ved. pr.thivi: comes from
*pl.th2u- 'wide, flat' (= Ved. pr.thu-) plus the feminine-forming suffix
-i:. The same adjective is familiar from Greek (platus), and an exact
cognate of <pr.thivi:> can be seen in the Celtic name of Brittany
(Gaulish Litavia, Welsh Llydaw). If *pl.th2ú- were found in Germanic, it
would be something like *fuldu-.

Piotr