Word for Heart

[Valerie J Roebuck]

Surely Sanskrit hRdaya, "heart", is a suffixed form of hRd, with the same
meaning, representing the IE root found in e.g. Latin cor, cordis, Greek
ker and kardia, and the English word "heart" itself?

Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

>RM. Krishnan <poo at GIASMD01.VSNL.NET.IN> wrote:
><<
>kuru - red
>kuruthi - blood (the red one)
>kuruthayam - organ handling blood
>kuruthayam> huruthayam. Moving to Sanskrit it becomes hruthayam>hrithayam.

V. Iyer wrote
>
>I see some problems in linking
>tamil "kuruti"(=blood) with sanskrit "hRdaya" (=heart).
>
>a) Are there any examples where the word-initial k-
>from Dravidian changes to h- in Sanskrit?
>
>b) The medical discovery that that heart is a pump for
>blood circulation is fairly recent and, ancients
>naming the heart in any language may not have taken
>this factor into consideration.
>
>Regards,
>V. Iyer
>
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