Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra

Thank you, George.

What do you think of Lubotsky's reasoning. I think it is hilarious.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra


>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> > --- 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
>
>
> ****GK: At the link Torsten has kindly provided,
> Lubotsky argues that while semantically "Slavic
> *jendr(&) 'strong, fresh' seems plausible, "the
> primary meaning in Slavic is clearly 'pit','kernel'"
> And he reiterates his earlier point about a wrong
> vocalization in Sanskrit,for if Indra "were an IE
> formation from *(H)indro-, we expect IIr **i(,}adra-
> ".***
> >
> >
> >
>
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