Re: Bactrian camel

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

> --- 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-:

> > The borrowing probably was from a Pashto dialect in which
> > s. > x.
> > had occurred.

> Could it have been introduced to the region via the Indo-Aryans

associated with the Mitanni?

>

I don't know of any evidence of s. > x. that would support that
theory, but there's not much evidence to begin with.