Re: [tied] Re: Digest Number 2804
From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 43608
Date: 2006-02-28
Latin ebur and Sanskrit ibha seems to be related, but I don't believe an IE origin. And I don't agree with "migration through camel-rich Central Asia" to explain Gothic ulbandus "camel". ulbandus was a corrupted form of Latin elephant-. Probably due the fact that camels and elephants are quoted on Bible.About Greek pardos and Skt prdaku seems more likely a IE source, but the original meaning would be ambiguous, we have many felids on Asia that would be the original *prdo-: leopards, tigers, lynxes, snow leopards, or even cheetahs.Hittite parsana seems more unexpected. We should expect a *pardana or *partana, shouldnt we? Or parsana < *prdyana-? or *partsana-? Or *przdo- ?
Joao SL
tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> escreveu: >
> The words for elephant, tiger, rice do have Indo-European etymologies
> (Elst 2000).
>
> http://koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com/articles/aid/urheimat.html
That text says
1) Gamkrelidze & Ivanov have proposed an IE etymology for "elephant"
2) nothing about "tiger"
3) the word for "rice" might be Austronesian
which is not quite what you said it said.
Torsten
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