Re: Implications of Bangani

From: stlatos
Message: 62153
Date: 2008-12-19

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
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> As I was planning to discuss Bangani in relation to (I believe) its
> closest relatives like Khowar, Nuristani, Burushaski, etc.

> Though the "centum" words have drawn the most attention,

Similar to areal boundaries of sound changes in Baltic, it seems the
affrication of PIE k^ (kY), etc., didn't take place in all
Indo-Iranian. So a I-I language as the source of the "centum" words
is possible. Borrowings from such a language also came into Skt, some
with both ç and k:


*kYr,Ngo-s > Khow surùng 'horn', Skt kuluNgá-s / kulaNgá-s / kuraNga-s
'antelope', RV kuruNgá-s (a name)

*kYerbero-s > G Kérberos (a name of a dog), S çabála-s, karbura- /
karvara- / çarvara- etc. 'spotted, etc.'

I-I *kYaNkHa-s 'conch shell' > kambu- / çambu- 'shell'

with k>p by u, as Khow *pr,zdn,kús > *purdumpu^ > *purdúmbù > purdúm
'leopard'; and u from nom. -o: as:

*maryako:^ 'boy, youth'
*marryákù:
*marráku
*ma:ráku
*kuma:rá (met.)

borrowed into Indic: Vedic kuma:rá-s