From: george knysh
Message: 64531
Date: 2009-07-31
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
--- In cybalist@... s.com, "Koenraad Elst" <koenraad.elst@ ...> wrote:
> now I'd like to see the list of reverse loans. Into Sanskrit or into "early IE".
> Likewise for loans from the Caucasian families, Altaic, Basque, Semitic or others.
Voilà
http://tech. groups.yahoo. com/group/ cybalist/ message/53968
I saw somewhere that the Sarmatians had lively contact with India.
*****GK: Cf. Ammianus Marcellinus (31.2.16): "Halani sunt orienti adclines, diffusi per populosas gentes et amplas, Asiaticos vergentes in tractus, quas dilatari ad usque Gangen accepi fluium intersecantem terras Indorum, mareque inundantem australe." NB: The Kushans were cousins of the Alans...****
That means they may have fed 'new' or substrate words to India too, where learned Sansrit experts were ready to re-sanskritize such loans from Iranian (they liked to do that). It annoys me to find again and again words I thought were NWEuropean, which fulfill every criterion, popping up in Sanskrit.