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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "raucousd" <raucousd@...> wrote:
> Atar is the word for sacred fire in Avestan, but it appears as the
> demon Atri in Sanskrit.
Shell we safely conclude the discussion on the (unrelatedness of) the
terms a:tar (name of the Avestan fire-god) and atri (used only once in
the R.gveda as an epithet of the fire-god Agni) with assuming that
O.Ir. a:tar < PIE *h2ah1-t(o)r- 'burner' and that OIA atri (< *at-tri)
< PIE *ed-t(o)r- 'devourer' (as in Lat. e:sor 'eater')?
Francesco