Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
>
> --- "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'****
>

http://www.ieed.nl/lubotsky/pdf/Indo-Iranian%20substratum.pdf

Which means some of the evidence for IIr. presence in Mitanni is
evidence for BMAC presence.


Torsten