Re: who are indus people?

ka:n.a_ means squint eyed in Marathi and Hindi. n and retroflex n are
spontaneously 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).
>
> > 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.

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Arnaud
What about good old PIE H-kw "eye" ?
Latin oculus
Greek ophthalmos
ka:na < *kalna from *Hkwol-n- (ln > retroflex n)
with a particular semantic development : eye > squint-eye.
I see no reason to think ka:na cannot be from PIE.
Arnaud
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