From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58251
Date: 2008-05-01
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: beyond languages: Mitanni and Rg-Vedic chronology
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> --- Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
>
> ...
>> What are the Indo-Aryan loan words in Chinese? Never
>> heard of them.
>
> Of course you have: chan and the various others via
> Buddhism
> but I supposed Arnaud will give some earlier ones
>
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I give Mandarin chinese + Baxter reconstructions
Among the intriguing words, you have :
bai2 "bright" < *brak
Cf. bhreHk-
Starostin bra:k
pei1 "foetus" < *phry (y = delabialised u)
Cf. *bher > *bhoru "that which is born(e)"
Cited in Starostin but without reconstruction
y in Baxter is in my opinion an previous *u.
cf. *mryk = *(w-)rugh- "cereal"
These words are not supposed to be (IE) LWs
but they definitely have an IE outlook.
They must have been borrowed before - 1 200 BC
as they are undetected LWs.
As you can see
bh has two representatives : b or ph
this suggests there have been at least two givers or two periods of
borrowing.
I would vote for *bra(:)k being Tocharian and *phru being Indic.
Arnaud
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