Re: [tied] Sanskrit to German ?

From: Max Dashu
Message: 36783
Date: 2005-03-17

Re: [tied] Sanskrit to German ?
That's pretty wild. But you list Brittany, and not Britain; are they from different roots then?

Max

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.th2รบ- were found in Germanic, it
would be something like *fuldu-.
Piotr

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