Re: Mitanni and Matsya

At 6:31:31 PM on Friday, April 4, 2008, david_russell_watson
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> I don't pretend to know much of anything about Sanskrit;
>> does it have any identifiable semantic content?

> I can't tell you more about that than my own sources,
> I'm afraid.

> Here is all that I could find on the suffix in T.
> Burrow's 'The Sanskrit Language', under 'The Formation
> of Nouns':

Thanks.

[...]

> By the way last night I came across another etymology for
> Varuna, from 'The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-
> European Roots':

Yes, I'd spotted that; it looked quite attractive, but I
really haven't the basis to form a useful opinion.

Brian