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--- Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email>
wrote:
> Steg wrote:
>
> > Go with [ja'va:n]!
> > ("Yavan" means 'Greece' in Hebrew)
> >
> > :-D
>
> Really? It's _Yaavana-_ in Sanskrit!
All from IFWH- as I recall; and has the same
reflex in Persian. Note that both retain the
otherwise lost digamma, which English borrowed as
Ionia.
Yaww�nas is the Talarian reflex and means
"Southern merchant". I.e., one from Sind or
Persia or any of the old Greek kingdoms. Even
applies to Westerners.
Padraic.
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'n aon le prims, bes et vrach;
'n aon le cerch, fucieoir et lugh;
'n aon le ters, dofert, afert;
'n aon le coueart, y chorn ce quei 'm tetulli-el!
[Dumnonian]
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