Re: Germanic folk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-06-08 03:16, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > Populus seems to mean the people
> > assembled in a military body, rather than the general populace,
> > however.
>
> No problem. <cakra-> may have the meaning 'military array, troop' in
> Sanskrit.
>
> Piotr

************
If primary meaning of Sanskrit cakram was 'circle, wheel', I doubt
that 'military array, troop' is an extended, metaphoric, so secondary
meaning.

Konushevci