From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56525
Date: 2008-04-03
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From: kishore patnaik
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.
Kishore patnaik
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I'm not saying Mitanni is Vedic or pre-Vedic.
I'm saying that
considering the shape of Hurri words
that are *impossibly* LWs from Skrt
it's quite obvious that Vedic Varuna and Indra
which are not attested elsewhere than in Hurri and Indic
are a substrate that Indic speakers received
when they entered in India.
Arnaud
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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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