Re: Mitanni and Matsya

No, what you say is too unbelievable

The Indic influence is indeed there but to say Mitanni is indic is wrong.

What we are struggling here to find is but for the linguistic proof (casual, to say the least), there is nothing to say that mitanni is pre vedic.

I am trying to gather my ammunition.

Kishore patnaik

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:47 PM, fournet.arnaud <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: kishore patnaik
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:36 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Mitanni and Matsya

Who is Kakawallah? what is kaka??

IA adstrate upon Hittite languages is long established but why pre vedic?
When obviously their documents are listing vedic gods after a long list of
Sumerian etc gods? There is no proof to show that Varuna et al were pre
vedic gods.

The IA roots of Mitanni is no doubt strained reading but calling Mitanni pre
vedic is casual reading.

Kishore patnaik

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In Hurri,

Varuna is uruwaanasiil [uruwanosil]
Indra is indara [int?ara]

To be frank, I can't believe a second
that Hurri borrowed these words from Indic.

It's the other way that sounds possible :
Hurri > Indo-iranian.

Indo-Iranians came empty-handed
and got what they discovered on the spot.

Arnaud

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