Re: Greek Psi

On Feb 28, 8:31 am, grammatim <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 28, 4:19 am, f...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So you have no idea how to provide evidence for bear
as the brown one, you can't look up a book, science
is a belief for you, nobody else can provide evidence
for bear as the brown one, or look up the books and
find something worthwhile about the etymology of
bear as the brown one in literature, everybody believes
it must be so because someonce said it is so, and now
everybody believes. That's science for you kooks from
academe.
So I must believe that bear means the brown one,
not just because you say so, but because you say that
someone says that someone said so?

I don't know for sure, not being an Indo-Europeanist and not having
the slightest interest in the etymology of 'bear', but I wouldn't be
at all surprised if the basic evidence was collected and reasoning
done by Friedrich August Pott in the middle of the 19th century. Have
you bothered to look at his large volumes of Etymologische
Forschungen? They are available on google books.

you are late into the game. The traditional etymology is based on
"the brown one" and Ringe has recently rejected that in favor of "the
wild one".

But Franz has come up with a truly brilliant but simple derivation -
"the furry one" thats has equal explanatory power with the others for
cold climates, but explains even more with respect to tropical India -
where fur is not that important (skt rikShas may be form "the ravenous
one"). Franz also theorises that newborn children were laid on
bearskin in ancient Europe thereby explaining the absence of the the
bear-childbirth relationship in Sanskrit (but the "Bhar" = "Carry"
relationship works both for Indian and European IE languages when not
used for gestation).
.

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