[tied] Re: Retroflex Consonants in P.I.E.

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 37815
Date: 2005-05-12

I sent this same message a few hours ago, but it still
hasn't appeared. My apologies if a duplicate eventually
shows up.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson"
<liberty@...>
> wrote:
>
> > vajra- some sort of weapon
>
> Diamond-tipped discus?
>
> Richard.

That's most likely a later Hindu or Buddhist mythological
interpretation, though. The Avestan cognate 'vazra-' is
given as "club, mace", and I tend to think that a better
description of the original weapon. However I was using
Sanskrit examples, and the online Monier-Williams with its
awfully busy and difficult to summarize definitions, and
so decided to just go with "some sort of weapon". :^)

I often have a problem trying to decide what to cull from
a Monier-Williams entry when citing Sanskrit in situations
like this.

David