From: shivkhokra
Message: 66732
Date: 2010-10-09
>No one doubts that Vedic Pur and Greek Polis are one and the same. Crete had palace names such as ma-to-ro puro, rauratijo puro etc. Compare such names to how palace founded cities are named in India: Udaipur, Jodhpur etc.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "shivkhokra" <shivkhokra@> wrote:
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> > We should also think about why on Crete the palaces were called PUR
> > on linear B tablets and not the greek term polis. Pur is what
> > palaces are in Vedas.
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> If you are referring to the term "pu-ro", attested repeatedly in Linear B tablets, that is considered a place-name (Greek Pulos, i.e. Pylos), not a word for 'palace'.
>See above.
> As to "pur is what palaces are in the Vedas", this statement of yours is simply ridiculous. In the Rigveda, pur means only 'rampart, wall made of mud and stones, fortification, palisade', and its supposed Indo-European cognates, Greek polis and Lithuanian pilis, originally meant only 'fortress, stronghold'. The reconstructed Proto-Indo-European form is generally given as *plh1- (which cannot have resulted in Greek <pulos>).
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