Re: Asian Migration to Scandinavia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-10-21 17:43, mkelkar2003 wrote:
>
> [quote, quote, quote...]
>
> > Ok. So which homeland is Lubotsky trying to defend?
>
> [quote, quote, quote...]
>
> > Now, which homeland is Witzel trying to defend?
>
> None. They are discussing linguistics, not politics, ideology or
> territorial defence. Please don't try to turn any discussion of
> Indo-Iranian vocabulary into a "homeland war".

Your advise must first apply to msg# 61023 mutadis muntandis which
reads in part, and to which I was responding to:

"Of course, Ivanov must defend his (and Gamkrelidze's) hypothesis of a
PIE homeland in Armenia, a corollary of which is that Proto-Iranian
was spoken southeast of the Caucasus at a very early date;
"

Also please see Charpethein Atharvan 1930.pdf pp. 234-235 and Frye
Atharvan 1948.pdf p. 231. Many other scholars have linked atar and
atharvan. So if the matter was decided on popular vote they would
win.

M. Kelkar



In particular, as regards

> the PIE homeland question, _absolutely nothing_ hangs on the

question

> whether <a:tar-> and <átHarvan-> are related or not. If Pinault is

right

> and <átHarvan-> is a substratal word of Central Asian origin, so be

it.

> It proves nothing about PIE and its geographical range. If the

words

> were somehow related, that would be equally irrelevant. I have

passed

> your message only to point out that the questions are meaningless

in the

> context of Francesco's posting. Neither I nor the other moderators

will

> pass any more messages in which the poster's contribution consists

of a

> bare link, a long quotation with a one-line comment, or a couple of
> rhetorical questions. Please keep that in mind.
>
> Piotr
>