Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 52708
Date: 2008-02-11

So then. What's this Dravidian *warinci?
Is ar-isi a folk etymology?


--- Patrick Ryan <proto-language@...> wrote:

> Dravidan *ar- means simply 'white'; add -*si, 'seed'
> with a combining form
> *ar-i- and voilá! (a)ris(i).
>
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE.
> *gWiH3w-
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rick McCallister
> >
> > I'm intrigued about this root.
> > Here's what I found at "Rice" on Wikipedia.
> > I plead ignorance, so tell me why the Dravidian
> root
> > looks more like your putative IE root than the
> > Indo-iranian form does.
> >
> > According to the Microsoft Encarta Dictionary
> (2004)
> > and the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (1988),
> the
> > word rice has an Indo-Iranian origin. It came to
> > English from Greek óryza, via Latin oriza, Italian
> > riso and finally Old French ris (the same as
> present
> > day French riz).

> > It has been speculated that the Indo-Iranian vrihi
> > itself is borrowed from a Dravidian vari (< PDr.
> > *warinci)[6] or even a Munda language term for
> rice.
> > The Tamil name ar-risi may have produced the
> Arabic
> > ar-ruzz, from which the Portuguese and Spanish
> word
> > arroz originated.
> >
> > Note 6. Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) The
> Dravidian
> > Languages Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
> ISBN
> > 0-521-77111-0 at p. 5.
> > ============
> >
> > If you search Starostin's dravidian,
> > *ar is rice
> > war is supposed to be a loanword form
> Austronesian.
> >
> > Maybe ar is related to ?at?
> > Egyptian ?_t
> > Latin ad-or etc
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ==================
> >
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