Re: Implications of Bangani

On 2008-04-18 07:26, stlatos wrote:

> Is there any evidence that this is a substratum within another
> language instead of native words in a non-Indic, non-Ir language that
> was fairly heavily influenced by Indic recently?

Bangani is a perfectly ordinary Mod.IA language.

> Though the "centum" words have drawn the most attention, they are
> certainly not the only words showing unusual (non-Indic) features, and
> the oddities are so varied and scattered throughout both basic and
> other vocabulary it seems impossible they are borrowings.

Have a heart. You should learn something about Indic _before_ you start
such wild speculation. Quite a few of your "non-Indic, non-Ir"
etymologies involve common IA words in no way restricted to Bangani and
with boringly normal pedigrees, but this one easily beats all the rest:

> *wodo:r. -n.+ > *mAdn.o: > pan.i 'water'

This is pure mAdn.ess, though there be method in 't. Something like
<pani> for 'water' can be found everywhere in Indic, from Hindi to
Romani. Cf. Skt. pa:na- 'drink(ing)', pa:ni:ya- 'beverage, water'. The
root is of course {pa:-} 'drink'.

Piotr