Re: Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos (was Re: R: Re: cases (nom/acc vs sub/obj)

In a message dated 2000:09:16 2:58:29 PM, yl-ruil@2CRFM.NET writes:

>> >> Nik sigged:
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>> >>> >>> > Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos
>>> >> > God gave teeth; God will give bread - Lithuanian proverb
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>> >> >That lang seems so Latin-ish...!
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>> >Indeed in Latin 'd sound like:
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>> >> >Deus dedit dentes (arch. dentis); Deus dabit panem.
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>> >
& I wrote:     It kinda reminded me of Sanskrit ;)
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>You mean "Devas adadat datas; devas dat dhanas"?
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>The triplet is well known in IE circles, it features in JP Mallory's book
>"In Search of the Indo-Europeans", while discussing the conservatism >of the
Lithuanian language. Here is the triplet all neatly together, with >Aredos as
well:
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>Dievas dave dantis; Dievas duos duonos
>Devas adadat datas; Devas dat dhanas
>Deus dedit dentes, Deus dabit panem
>Deivos edódet dentis, Deivos dóit dhonom.
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>Dan
    ::makes a note to get a good English-Sanskrit/Sanskrit-English
dictionary::
    ANY recommendations?
    As far as Sanskrit goes, all I have is _The Oxford Dictionary of World
Religions_  (which is great for reference & con-religion creation!)
    And while we're at it, any recommendations on a Lithuanian dictionary?  :)

    czHANg
    ::currently tacklin' a spelling/orthography for his conlang Viivo
(phonemic spelling ...words are becoming almost unrecognizable
"Italo-polyglot" ... more distinctly _futurii Viivo_!!!)