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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
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> ok,
> Let's enjoy some OIT demolition.
[Mayuresh snipped the rest of Aranud's post.]
That does not demolish much of anything. The fact remains that ustra
is cleary an IE word which has always meant camel in IIr. Mallory
and Adams (1997) try to explain this as a shift of meaning from bull
to camel as IIr entered new territories. See p. 135 of the link below:
http://tinyurl.com/62cclq
This is unconvincing because bulls are fairly common in west and
south asia so there was no need to give up the originial meaning of
the term if indeed that was the original meaning. Secondly Marathi,
Hindi unta, unt still which derive from ustra still mean camel.
M. Kelkar