From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 66738
Date: 2010-10-09
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@> wrote:It does, however, fit the notion of Vedic influence on the Greeks if it is a loan word rather than a common inheritance. I'm currently reading a paper by Françoise Bader with the title 'De mycénien matoropuro, azopozoo à grec matropolis, aleifobios: le traitement des sonantes-voyelles au premier millenaire'.
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Francesco Brighenti"
> > > <frabrig@> wrote:
> > >> 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'.
> > > 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.
> > You appear to have completely missed Francesco's point,
> > which is that all of this is completely irrelevant to Linear
> > B <pu-ro> 'Pulos', which cannot have the same source.