ulUkhala (was pie/sanskrit)

[N. Ganesan]

>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.

I guess this is from the 1955 review by Thieme of "The Sanskrit
language" by T. Burrow, Language 31: 428-457. However Witzel rejects
this  IE explanation of his old teacher Thieme. Especially in the
layer-by-layer analysis of the RV in the more recent researches
and he permits Drav. to occur in this part.

Regards,
N. Ganesan

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