Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra

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From: george knysh
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 4:19 PM
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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Hourri simple -d- and -g- are
consistent with t? and k? as
phonetic readings.
While dd and tt are the same -t-

Indara in Hourri is against a chain
like
BMAC > Indo-Iranian > Hourri
unless you assume a *highly*
speculative conservation of glottalized
in Indo-Iranian.

?int?-ara must something else.
and connection with y_d-
seems impossible too.

A.
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