Re: Mitanni and Matsya

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "David Russell Watson" <liberty@>

wrote:

>
> *Har-, in my opinion, means 'pale, colorless',

Your opinion carries no authority.

> an apt description of the nutmeat of all (most, at least) nuts,
> whatever their size, shape, or hull-color.

We're not talking about nuts, we're talking about the
original meaning of the Indo-Iranian ethnonym 'arya-',
which we've still been given no reason to believe ever
had anything to do with paleness. Do you really find
Indians and Iranians to be particularly pale, Patrick?

> > Saying that nuts are pale and so 'nut' must mean 'pale',
> > even when no such meaning is attested, is about as far
> > from the legitimate practice of scientific etymology as
> > one can ever get.
>
> This interpretation of the meaning is supported by *ar-i-o-

It's *arya-, not *ario-. We've no evidence for a Proto-
Indo-European *aryo-, only a Proto-Indo-Iranian *arya-.

You can't claim support from something that doesn't exist.

> and probably *ar-u-.

You've yet to explain what *aru- is supposed to be.

> Nor have you proved anything other than YOU are uncertain
> - mostly about yourself.

I proved my every claim, but I've given you no reason
to say I'm uncertain about myself.

Are you so desperate to score a hit on my face that you
have to invent things?

> Speak up and become a target for your psychological inadequacy?

I have no psychological inadequacy. More invention on
your part? Who's the model for all these psychological
maladies you imagine of others, I wonder?

> I probably would not myself.

Face facts, Patrick: you haven't succeeded, even after
years of trying, to convince even a single other person
of your odd ideas.

David