From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60807
Date: 2008-10-11
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 5:58 PM
Subject: [tied] *werh1- [was: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?]
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> On 2008-10-11 15:28, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
>> Is *werH acceptable as the root of Latin veritas ?
>
> If Lat. ve:rus, Gmc. *wæ:ra-, Celt. wi:ro- < *we:rh1-o- (rather than
> *weh1-ro-, as some analyse it; cf. also Slavic *ve^ra 'faith'), it is a
> vr.ddhied derivative of *werh1- 'speak' (quite a sensible derivation).
> Etymologies of Varuna often start with this root, though it has to be
> said that there were probably a few very similar PIE roots (*(h)wer(h)-)
> with different meanings. In particular, the root of 'wide, broad' was
> also either *werh1- or something very similar.
>
> Piotr
>
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I agree that Varuna is phonetically too "vague" so that ten roots are
acceptable.
but
the idea of my question is a comparison between
Varuna < werH "god of truth" and
Egyptian Maât "truth" < *m r H
With my pet phoneme glottalized m?
This makes the word Varuna extremely old in that case !!
Arnaud
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