Re: Arrows (was: On the ordering of some PIE rules)

--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- david_russell_watson <liberty@...>
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud"
> > <fournet.arnaud@...>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > I haven't found this word **çara
> > > I found sara and many others.
> >
> > Try zaru- "a missile, dart, arrow", and also
> > zarumat- "armed with
> > missiles".
> >
> > See also
> >
>

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/11600

> > .
> >
> > David
>
> ****GK: Some prefer "swords" to "arrows". In any
> case,
> "archer" for Sarmatian sounds strange since Scythian
> supposedly meant the same thing. How is "spear" in
> Old
> Iranian? Sarmatians were great lancers. Add the
> armour
> and you have a charging medieval knight...****
> >

Did you check out "Sarmatism"? Like the article you
pointed re: Romanian nostalgic fantasies under
Ceaucescu, this one is a great work of memetic intervention.


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