Re[4]: [tied] Economic analysis of Indian History: meaning of Aryan

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 52730
Date: 2008-02-12

At 10:54:12 PM on Monday, February 11, 2008, kishore patnaik
wrote:

[...]

> Btw, while I do not want to start off another round of
> discussion on Arthur but I can not resist the layman's
> urge to see that (M) Aruthi(r) (another name of Hanuman,
> an ape man of Rmn, known for his super natural strength)
> and Arthur are at least phonetic cognates.

Even a layman ought to know the meaning of 'cognate' and
realize that 'phonetic cognate' makes no sense. Perhaps you
mean that you think them phonetically similar; that is at
least a meaningful statement, albeit one that implies a very
generous notion of similarity on your part.

Brian