Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54641
Date: 2008-03-04

George,

is their argument simply that they cannot identify a suitable PIE root?


Patrick


----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra


>
> --- "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
>
> > Intara = Indara (-sh) in Mitanni?
> >
> > If there is *yNdro, there should be also a *yNdno- ?
>
>
> ****GK: Note BTW that Lubotsky and Witzel consider
> "Indra" to be an IIr borrowing from the BMAC language,
> with no PIE roots. Cf. e.g. Lubotsky's "THe
> Indo-Iranian substratum" in the 2001 Carpelan-Parpola
> et al. volume 'Early contacts between Uralic and
> Indo-European'****
>
>
>
>
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