Re: who are indus people?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "mkelkar2003" <swatimkelkar@> wrote:

> > _ka:n.a_ means squint eyed in Marathi and Hindi. n and retroflex n are
> > spotaneously altered in Sanskrit without the necessity of their being
> > loans from Munda or Dravidian. See for example
>
> > "Spontaneous Cerebrals in Sanskrit
> > T. Burrow
> > Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
> > London, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1971), pp. 538-559
> > This article consists of 22 page(s).

> To be investigated. The first page gives the impression that it often
> left traces in that the Neogrammatically regular forms also tend to be
> around.
>
> What's the current take on the notion that _stha:n.u_ is derived from
> *sthalnu?

It's much more likely metathesis: sthú:n.a:- > stha:n.ú- 'post,
pillar'. There are plenty of cognates for sthú:n.a:-.

> Admittedly that opens up the notion that ka:n.a comes from
> something like PIE **kalna or **kWolna. The nearest I can see for
> this is _kiNa_ 'corn, callosity' from PIE *kal 'hard'

Probably from PIE *kar+ 'bent, rough, hard'; *kr,n.ós > Latin
cornus, *kr,n.áH > Middle Indic kin.a-.

I have no reason to think ka:n.a- came from PIE.