Re: Greek kitharis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
> >
> > I'd suggest PIE *kantlom 'musical instrument [stringed]' >
> > *ky~tHry~ > *kytHary in an Indo-Iranian language with features
> > like an > y (in some Nuristani) tr > tHr (Khowar, etc.), and
> > V-insertion (id., many others); from there borrowed widely.
>
> No. Beside the tanbur-e se ta:r, or "three-stringed pandore",
> we have also the dota:r, c^a:rta:r, panc^ta:r, and s^as^ta:r,
> with originally two, four, five, and six strings respectively.
>
> There's no connection between 'sitar' and 'kithara'.

I said nothing about a connection between the two; only about the
origin of the Greek word.