Re: Eastre & *Aus-

At 20:35 28.4.2000 +0100, Raymond Brown wrote:
>At 12:28 pm +0200 28/4/00, BP Jonsson wrote:
>[...]
> >
> >You might add Sanskrit _u.sas_ (f. s-stem) and the related verb _vas_
> >"shine", and perhaps also _u.s_ "emit heat".  Combining all this evidence
> >the IE root must have been *h2ews/*H2wes.
>
>Thanks - some enlightenment at last - but I guess that's to be expected
>from a Buddhist  ;)
Oh please, this selfish person is always an easy prey to flatter,
especially from wise ones like your esteemed person!  This ignorant one is
not a dispenser of Enlightenment, but one in need of receiving it, like the
deer seeking water in the desert!  (Now I bet that simile gives you a
deja-vu -- I snatched it out of a text! :-)

B'sides 'tis hardly the Buddhist speaking, but the _bhaasavidvaan_.

> >These roots whose middle grade
> >can have either a falling or a rising diphthong are aptly called
> >_samprasaara.na_ "floating" in Sanskrit.  Note that the Greek h- has
> >nothing to do with the I.E. h2-, but is an assimilation from the medial
> >-s- > -h- > -0-.
>
>Yep - I thought I'd shown that, but maybe I hadn't made it clear.
You did.  I just wanted to nip any notion that the Greek /h/ be related to
IE /h1...3/ in the bud!

[...]
> >I'm afraid only Ray can follow this.
>
>Your fears were unfounded, as you've seen from responses already.  You
>underestimate the lucidity of your explanations  :)
I forgot what a linguistically keen audience I was talking to! :-)





/BP

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