Re: [tied] Re: Clarification for short story.

(...)" It has been proposed to connect brahman with a group of ritual terms in Indo-Iranian of which the principal ones are Vedic barhiṣ- sacrificial grass Avestan barǝzi- cushion, and especially Avest. bar&sman- bundle of branches which the priest holds in his hand during the sacrifices. There has in fact been a formal proposal to make the etymological equation Ved. bráhman = Av. bar&sman-. "(...)

Could this sense of "grass, cushion, bundle" make these words cognate of Latin fascis "bundle"? fascis < *farscis <*bHarg^H-ski- ?

Joao SL

david_russell_watson <liberty@...> escreveu:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson" <cdog_squirrel@...> wrote: > > So, would it have been something akin to "Egh kerd-dhoH2, Djéu > PH2ter"? Well if I could "speak" Proto-Indo-European, I would simply translate your sentence for you, but I'm afraid that I can't. I can at least tell you, though, that 'I' isn't *egh, that *dheH- should be inflected, and that I'm pretty sure the pronoun 'thee' needs to be included. > And is *bhlaghman right for a priest / member of the topmost > caste? The roots site didn't say. No. The Latin 'flamen' and Indo-Aryan 'brahman' aren't cognates, as was once supposed, and the latter can be traced no farther back than Proto-Indo-Iranian. I've uploaded to the files section some excerpts on the etymology of 'brahman' from Benveniste's 'Indo-European Language and Society' and H. W. Bailey's 'The Culture of the Sakas in Ancient Iranian Khotan'. David

Yahoo! Mail: agora com 1GB de espaço grátis. Abra sua conta!