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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: marianna-  Hurrian or IE?
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In article <58i9p6$r83@mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
Vidhyanath K. Rao <vidynath@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>[I am redirecting the follow-ups to sci.lang as this is about linguistics.]
>
>In article <petrichE24w58.AsA@netcom.com>,
>Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com> wrote:

>>	English "head" and Latin "caput" do correspond (< IE *kaput), but 
>>the Persian word, as MCV notes, is probably from English *ker- "horn, top 
>>of head" (English horn, Latin cornu, Greek keras, etc.).

>I assume that the `English' *ker is actually IE.

>Anyway, is there any relationship to Sanskrit `shiras/shiirshhan'?
>[To complicate matters, there is also `shrnga', horn.]

	Is the "sh" in your transcription also sometimes transcribed 
"s'", as in das'a "ten"? (Skt. s' corresponds to k in Germanic, Latin, 
Greek, Celtic, and other centum branches of IE).

	And what does that word mean?
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