Re: Res: Res: [tied] Swiftness of Indra

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
>
> --- 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.
> >
>
> FWIW:
> Greek pho:s "light"
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/bHA.html
> Estonian päev, -a "day", päevitama "sunbathe", päevitunud
> "sun-burned"
>
> Torsten
>
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>
> The connection of Finnish päjvä
> with Greek Phoibê seems impossible.
>
> 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.

Would *bheh2- "glänzen, leuchten, scheinen" (LIV) suit you?

> It's kind of mixed up with another
> root *puh- *poh "fire / to cook"
> obviously cognate to PIE *puH2- "fire"

Something's mixed up here alright.

> In any case, päjvä has nothing to do
> with Phoibê.

No, not as a cognate in the inheritance sense, which no one proposed
anyway. We were talking about loans. Why is it that every time I must
answer a posting from you, I have to restrain myself?


Torsten