Re: Bactrian camel

--- On Mon, 12/15/08, stlatos <stlatos@...> wrote:

> From: stlatos <stlatos@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Bactrian camel
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 3:45 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco
> Brighenti" <frabrig@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, I found some time for continuing this discussion
> at last!
> >
> > 1) AKKADIAN UDRU-/UT.RU-/UTRU-
>
> > Igor M. Diakonoff advanced an interesting linguistic
> hypothesis
> > about the source of this (probable) loan into
> Akkadian. According to
> > him, the source would be a proto-Dardic (viz. an
> Indo-Aryan, not an
> > Iranian) form of PIIr. *us^tra-:
> >
> > "There is still another Akkadian gloss
>
> > In Pashto (Afghan), however, we
> > encounter u:s.^- [/s.^/ = voiceless retroflex
> fricative], borrowed
> > into several Dardic dialects as u:x- (thus also in the
> Nuristani
> > languages Ashkun, Dameli, Waigali [...]), and even as
> u:k-.
>
> The borrowing probably was from a Pashto dialect in which
> s. > x.
> had occurred.
>
> > goes back [...] to a proto-Dardic form such as
> *uhtra:-/*us.tra:-"
> > (I.M. Diakonoff, "Pre-Median Indo-Iranian Tribes
> in Northern Iran",
> > _Bulletin of the Asia Institute -- Bloomsfield Hills_,
> N.S., Vol. 10
> > [1996], pp. 12-13).
>
>

Could it have been introduced to the region via the Indo-Aryans associated with the Mitanni?