Newsgroups: sci.lang
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!cornellcs!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!netcom.com!netcom16!alderson
From: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: Farsi vs. Gaelic
In-Reply-To: Julian Pardoe's message of Mon, 04 Nov 1996 13:26:27 +0000
Message-ID: <ALDERSON.96Nov7164213@netcom16.netcom.com>
Sender: alderson@netcom16.netcom.com
Reply-To: alderson@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line services
References: <558fru$4ng@dub-news-svc-3.compuserve.com>
	<ALDERSON.96Oct31145128@netcom16.netcom.com>
	<327DEF03.5178@lonnds.ml.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 00:42:13 GMT
Lines: 11

In article <327DEF03.5178@lonnds.ml.com> Julian Pardoe <pardoej@lonnds.ml.com>
writes:

>Does this mean that "Eire" is not related to the IE word "arya"?

The *Indo-Iranian* word _arya-_ is unrelated to _Eire_, yes.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
