Re: Meaning of Aryan: "mountain people"?!

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "kishore patnaik"
<kishorepatnaik09@...> wrote:

[I had written:]

> > I think it would be better to start again from Paul Thieme
> > & Emile Benveniste's ari `stranger', which was recognized long
> > ago by general consensus as the base of the Vedic term arya.
>
> I invite your attention to your message
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/indo_iranian/message/1981
>
> Comments please.

Kishore, on that occasion I had just ASKED the opinion of the
members of the indo-iranian List about O. Szemerenyi's proposal of a
Semitic etymology for Indo-Iranian term *arya. I was from the
beginning not inclined to accept such an implausible proposal. Not
that the few replies I got then satisfied my inquisitiveness; in any
event, the following one was the best:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/indo_iranian/message/1982

> I have never seen any comment on this etymology, but I must point
> out that similarity between very short words in non-related
> languages with roughly the same meaning may very likely be due to
> chance. The best we can say for Szemerenyi's etymology is a "non
> liquet".

Regards,
Francesco