ulUkhala (was pie/sanskrit)

[Hans Henrich Hock]

Thieme proposed a derivation from Skt. uru- 'broad, wide' and 
khara/khala- 'thrashing floor', with "popular" _l_ (which, given the 
hymn in which it occurs, is not unreasonable). The braahmaNa 
literature has its own popular etymologies.

Hans Henrich Hock


>>There  are terms in Rv which are clearly non-IE: ulukhala.
>>Then, Indo-Iranian maksi is believed to be borrowed from the Finno-Ugric.
>
>
>M. Witzel, Section 1.6, Dravidian in the Middle and Late RV,
>in Substrate languages in Old IA, EJVS, 5-1, 1999, p. 17
>"ulUkhala 1.28 'mortar' DEDR 672 Tam. ulukkai, Kan. olake,
>Ko.dagu o.lake, and Kota o.lka, o.lkal kal '(stone) mortar',
>Malto lo_ra 'stone to grind spices' (S. Palaniappan, by letter);
>EWA I 231 'problematic'; cf. Zvelebil 1990: 79 with lit., Kuiper
>1991: 14, 41 'still unexplained', compares loan words with prefix
>u-; any connection with khala 'threshing floor' RV 10.48.7?".
>
>Pl. see my posting on 8th July 2000, titled
>Husking platform, Pestle-and-Mortar sign, and ulUkhala.
>http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-shl/WA.EXE?A2=ind0007&L=indology&P=R819 
>6&D=1&H=0&O=D&T=1
>
>Regards,
>N. Ganesan
>
>
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