From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56544
Date: 2008-04-03
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From: Daniel J. Milton
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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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Puhvel says "Varuna is palpably derived from the root vr- 'enclose,
confine, restrict' (in RV 7.82.6 Varuna actually pra vrnoti 'confines'
... It is in origin an epithet of Asura 'Lord',thus 'Lord confining'."
I can't palpate this derivation myself, but if you have objections,
I'd like to read them.
Dan
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Let's do it one by one.
How do you explain
uruwanaashiil
with
Indic Varuna
I can't see the phonetics and morphology ?
Arnaud
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