Re: Haya (Horse)

Hi Francesco Brighenti

Unfortunately, I could not understand French to get into details as how haya and Ji related. But I know that Armenia is also called Hayastan. But the information I have is that Haya in hayastan is a non indoeuropean term. Probably something related to progeny of Noah or Japhet which is a non indoeuropean theme. So got confused if Armenians were indoeuropeans!!

Many thanks

suresh

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:59:15 -0700
Subject: [tied] Re: Haya (Horse)

> Horse is called haya in Sanskrit. I am looking for an equivalent word in
> other IE languages and PIE. Let me know if anything is close to "haya".
> Of course aswa is more commonly used for horse in Sanskrit.

If you can read French, the following article by Charles de Lamberterie -- an Indo-Europeanist specializing in Armenian -- provides the state of the art on the posited genetic relationship of Sanskrit haya and Armenian ji, both meaning 'horse':

http://tinyurl.com/pkruleh
(open this link by using, alternatively, either Internet Explorer and Google Chrome to be able to view all the pages of the article)

Kind regards,
Francesco Brighenti