Indo-Aryan words in Hurrian

[Steve Farmer]

M. Witzel writes:

> In short: if Mitanni has, by 1400 BC, mazda, vaz'hana, then the RV medha,
> vaahana is *late*/later. Note that Possehl now wants to bring down the date
> of iron as well. If this goes down from c.1200 to, say, 1000 BCE, so goes
> the RV. It has no iron, yet.

The dates suggested by Possehl and Gullapalli (1999) are actually
900 BCE, Michael -- and these are the *earliest* dates, not those
of any wide diffusion, which they date c. 900 - 300 BCE.