Re: [tied] Vedic Rta... one last time

A. wrote:

> Ooops, thought I was done with looking into various IE linguistics
> but....
>
> I know that the Snaskrit Rta, Sanskrit Ritu, and Avestan Asha all
> ultimately derive from the PIE root *Ar- "to fit together" but what I
> am unsure about are the intermediate stages between *Ar- and the
> finished terms.

The root is *h2ar- (//h2er//) 'fit, put together'. Old Indic r.tá-,
r.tú- 'rule, order' and r.tí- 'art' contain the zero grade: *h2r.-tó-
(deverbal adjective, or its substantivisation = 'cosmic order') and
*h2r.-tú-, -tí- (deverbal nouns). The informal spelling <ri> for
syllabic [r.] reflects its traditional Sanskrit pronunciation (but is
not the correct transliteration). Avestan <s^.> is a development of *rt
following an accent, so both <ar&ta-> and <as^.a-> (the latter used as
the name of a divinity) correspond to Skt. r.ta-, with accent on the
suffix in the former case and shifted to the root syllable in the latter.

>
> Could anyone clarify whether the terms Rta/Ritu/Asha stem from the
> suffixed form *ar-ti- from which we get artisan and the Greek
> artios 'fitting'?

Yes, these and Lat. ars, artis.

Piotr