Gendler concerning the origin of the IndoIranian lgs:
> I find this quite interesting. Can you recommend
> some sources where I might look into this further ?
As I've said before, basic information like this
can be glimpsed from the Encyclopaedia Britannica at
a regular public library, if not there, at a local
university library, because it is an unusually
detailed encyclopaedia. That's the perfect start to
getting leads on even more information elsewhere.
The early exchange between Indo-Iranian and Finno-
Ugric is one of many really cool factoids in
linguistics and is the only thing to help explain
things like Finnish /porsas/, ultimately from
IndoIranian *párc^as "pig" (<= I _think_ that's
the form but don't quote me), which is from IE
*pórkos "pig", hence Latin /porcus/. Another
undeniable one is the word for "100": Finnish /sata/.
The IE word is *kmtóm so I'm guessing it was probably
something like *c^atá at that time.
This link has some of these reconstructed Indo-
Iranian roots in its "Indo-Aryan" database:
http://www.ieed.nl/
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