Re: Vaz(h)ra / uz(h)ra

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62006
Date: 2008-12-10

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From: "Francesco Brighenti" <frabrig@...>


I don't know if the following can be of further help.

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It does help.

it's possible that Moksha uzer is in fact Tokharian
as uske is known to be Tokharian

A.
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Khotanese Saka: vas'ära-. Compare, however, Tocharian B was'i:r-
(Adams: "From Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit vajar- or, perhaps, some
Prakrit equivalent"), wa:jrä- (Adams: "From Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit
vajra-").

If the Saka term is not an Indic loan introduced into the Tarim
Basin by the Buddhists as is the case with the above Tocharian B
terms (which is, in any event, rather unlikely), then a case could
be made for a cognate northwestern Scythian term for 'mace' with
palatalized sibilant to have been the source of the Finnic words
supposedly derived from the proto-form *was'ara- 'hammer, axe'.

Regards,
Francesco