Etymologically, Sk. cakra- (no aspiration, BTW) = Gk kyklos =
PG *hweh(a)la- = E _wheel_.
Basilius
On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 07:55:13 -0500, Muke Tever
<alrivera@...> wrote:
>Well, I think {chakram} (or {chakra}) was /c@kr@m/ (with a palatal stop),
which
>couldn't match with anything in Greek (or TV's English). The author
appears to
>sidestep how he thought the Greeks pronounced it. My guess is it would use
a
>/t/, because most of the things that correspond to palatalization in Greek
seem
>to produce /t/, such as the outcomes of *kwe- (> /te/), *kwi- (> /ti/),
*pj- (>
>/pt/)...