Re: Rg Veda Older than Sanskrit (was: Ban all non academic discussio

On 2008-04-20 23:26, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> But the Proto Indo-Iranian form posited there (*dHugh2ter-), while
> accounting for the Sanskrit form <duhitar->, does not correspond to
> the Greek form <thugate:r> which Piotr says can only reflect
> *dHugVte:r. Do the Sanskrit and Greek forms go back to two
> different independent etymons?

There must have been some misunderstanding. *dHugh2te:r accounts for all
the reflexes in the (forgive the pun) daughter languages including Greek
and Sanskrit. In Greek, *h2, when vocalised between consonants, did not
cause a preceding stop to develop aspiration, so we have *dHug&2te:r >
tHugate:r. In Sanskrit it did, because *&2 came to be pronounced as
something like *[hI] in the immediate ancestor of Indo-Aryan. Both
developments are regular.

Piotr