Vasco-Caucasian and the comparatine method [was: Stacking up on stan

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

> Should I remind you of Sanskrit śáras 'cream, film on boiled milk'
> < IE *k´el- 'to cover, to conceal'?

I don't think so. Skt. śárman 'cover, shelter, protection, refuge, safety'; śaraṇá 'protecting, defending'; ā-śāra 'shed, shelter'; upāśara 'protection'; cf. Old Averstan sar- 'shelter' -- all point to the meaning 'shelter, protection', while one would hardly say that the cream "protects" the boiling milk.

Where dod you find this etymology? The term śáras is post-Rigvedic, and I could not trace your proposed etymology in any of the dictionaries I have access to.

Regards,
Francesco