Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: John Atkinson (johnacko_at_bigpond.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:46:05 GMT

"Comm" <no@spam.com> wrote...
>
> <ranjit_mathews@yahoo.com> wrote...
> >
> > Comm wrote:
> >
> >> Our word for
> >> God, for instance, is Bog. We say the Slavs got that word from us.
> >
> > A Russian told me it came from a cognate of Sanskrit or Iranian
Bhaga;
> > Hindi Bhagawan seems like a cognate.
>
> And I will maintain that Russians would prefer to have gotten it from
> Iranians than to have (god forbid) gotten it from us Tatars.

Bloody clever of the Slavs to get it from your mob back when the two
peoples were still thousands of km apart. When the Turks were still
back in the Altai Mountains, and the proto-Slavs were NW of the Black
Sea. Next door to proto-Iranian speakers, BTW.

J.

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