Re: Greek tenagos = Skt tadaga ?

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

>

> > > Skt
> > > tad.a:ka-s 'tank/pool'
> > > tad.aga-s 'pond'
> > > tat.a:ka-m 'pool'
> > > tat.aka-m 'shore'
> > > tat.a-s\m 'slope/declivity/sloping part of body/shore'
> > > dhánu- \ dhanú:- (f) 'dry sandbank / sandy shore'
> > > dhanvana-s \ dhanvaga-s ' ~fruit tree'
> > > dhánvan- 'bow'
> > >
> > > Bur >> Khow
> > > t.s.Honz.òr 'stone bow'
> > >
> > >
> > > Note the alt. dH / tH / t- and -n / r / g-, among others, both w/in and between. Some of the Skt forms might have been borrowed from another Indo-Ir l.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Whatever Indo-Ir l. was the source, it showed voicing alt. k/g and n. > d. , as also seen in:
> >
> >
> > khad.gá-m 'iron'
> > khad.gá-s 'sword'
> > khaNgá-s 'sword'
> > t.aNga-s 'sw/spade'
> > t.aNka-s\m 'sw/sp/hatchet/hoe'
> >
> >
> > all from PIE * kaLd.ó+ \ * kLd.ó+ 'branch/spear/sword' :

> It seems that the source Indo-Ir l. was ancestral to or a close relative of Burushaski.
>
> * At.-r.ud.-gÀ > * t.ad.gà > taG = branch / shoot Bu;
>

For more ex. of Burushaski >> S with k/g > G alt. see "Early Sources for South Asian Substrate Languages" by Michael Witzel.

However, if you read it all remember my earlier warnings about its mistakes concerning non-Burushaski supposed borrowings.