From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 54671
Date: 2008-03-04
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Res: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> >
> > If gandharva/gand&r&Ba came from BMCA, Greek kentauros could be
> related too... It makes me remind my past idea that Koios/Phoibe were
> telated to Finnic Kuu/Paiva from some (odd) way.
> > I would add to these words the mythical dogs of Yama:
> karvara/s^arbala and Greek Kerberos.
> >
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> FWIW:
> Greek pho:s "light"
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/bHA.html
> Estonian päev, -a "day", päevitama "sunbathe", päevitunud "sun-burned"
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> Torsten
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> The connection of Finnish päjvä
> with Greek Phoibê seems impossible.
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> Internal analysis of Uralic data
> in particular in Permic shows the
> PU proto-form was *baj-
> with a variant *baj-wo
> It meant "light, day" and "lightning".
> It's hard to suggest something in PIE
> for this *baj PU root.
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Not the same root but for *baj-wo-
PIE *bha:(H)u-
Patrick
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> It's kind of mixed up with another
> root *puh- *poh "fire / to cook"
> obviously cognate to PIE *puH2- "fire"
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> In any case, päjvä has nothing to do
> with Phoibê.
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> Arnaud
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