Re: leopard

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

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@>
> wrote:
> >
> > >Sanskrit PRDAKU- Russian PARS Greek PARDOS, PARDALIS, PORDALIS
> > >
> > >PIE word?
> > >Russian < Scythian?
> >
> > Russian <bars>, according to Gamqrelidze & Ivanov, is borrowed from
> > Turkic <ba:rs>, in turn from Persian <pa:rs>.
> >
> > G & I (not unexpectedly) claim that the word is PIE, based on Hitt.
> > <parsana>, the Persian word, as well as the Grk. and Skt. forms you
> > mention above (plus Sogdian <pwrD'nk>). I don't recall how they want
> > to explain the *pard- ~ *pars- alternation. Not very likely.
> >
> IMHO this isogloss can be explained as two different results from a
> dental affricate in NEC *bX\erts'i 'wolf; jackal', a root apparently
> cognate to Altaic *borso 'badger' (Turkic, Korean, Japonic).

If you want to use Starostin's rec., at starling.rinet.ru there is ev. for the word 'badger'. In Turkic languages this is borsuq, morzuq, etc.

Now, grouped within North Caucasian:

Meaning: badger

Tsezi: birušo

Ginukh: birušo

Bezhta: beruse

Gunzib: miruš


The alt. b/m is diagnostic of relationship between 'badger' and 'badger'; much more likely than 'badger' and 'wolf'.


For these, a rec. like * bOrXumt'sYa \ * bOrt'sYumXa \ etc. could explain both.


These words:

pr,´da:ku- = leopard/tiger/snake S; purdúm Kh;

must be IE since r, > r, and n, > a in Sanskrit but r, > ur and n, > un in Khowar show the regular changes of syllabic C in Sanskrit and Khowar (and r, > ar and n, > a in Greek, too). No borrowed word should have a V that varies exactly as the IE consonants did, including 0 in Skt.