Aryan Invasion/migration Theories & Debates -2

[dhu]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The word ‘daughter’ also is orphaned in English, Gmc tochter, Lth duktea,
Gk ı˘Á¿ÙËÚ thugatear, etc; again S duhitrr alone has a root duh ‘milk’ (cf √jan ‘generate’ > janitrr, √van ‘win’ > vanitrr) and other cognates. link<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I take two very common examples the cognate stems of which are to be found in all IE stocks, except Hittite and Celtic: ‘daughter’ and ‘son’.The two are, in a sense, orphaned, without parentage, as it were, in all the branches, except Sanskrit.

Thus ‘daughter’ appears in Arm dustr, GÎ thugaztear , OItal futir, Goth dazuhtar, etc. <b>But, despite intensive searches, in no language is found a root or verb-stem to connect with this word. Only Sanskrit has the root duh from which not only duh-i-tÖ ‘daughter (milk-maid)’ but also several other nouns (dugha ‘cow’, duh ‘milking, granting’, doha ‘the milking, milk’, etc) and a fully conjugated verb </b>(dogdhi ‘milks’, duhiayÄt ‘may one milk’, du-doha ‘one has milked’ etc). Similar formations are found with √aö ‘eat’>aö-i-tÖ ‘eater’, √grah ‘seize’, grah-ia-tÖ ‘seizer’, √pua ‘purify’>pav-J-tÖ ‘purifier’, etc. (Two more feminines, maatÖ ‘mother’ and svasÖ ‘sister’ are inflected like the masculines pitÖ , bhraatÖ ‘brother’.) Some remotely possible cognates in other IE stocks have been proposed, like Gk tugh-aznoa ‘occur’, Olr duaal ‘suitable’, Goth dazng ‘useful’, etc but all are uncertain (Mayrhofer, under dogdhi).
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->And, to howsoever great or small an extent, this appears to strengthen the claims of India to be the location of the original homeland of the Indo-European family of languages.

This is corroborated by the fact that Sanskrit retains a distinctly different root word for “milk”, which appears to be older, and closer to the original Indo-European ethos, than the common word for “milk” found in almost all the other branches of Indo-European languages.

Many of the other branches have related words for “milk”: German milch, Irish mlicht, Russian moloko, etc.  And even where they appear to differ in the noun form, they share a common word for the verb “to milk”: Latin mulgere, Old High German melchan, Greek amèlgo, Old Church Slavonic mlešti, Lithuanian milZti, Albanian mjellë, Irish bligim, etc.

Only Sanskrit and Iranian stand out in not having any word related to the above.  Instead, we have Sanskrit dugdha, “milk”, derived from the root duh-, “to milk”, with related verbal forms duxtan, dušidan, “to milk” in modern Persian (though not in the Avesta).

The root duh-, found directly only in Sanskrit, and only secondarily in Iranian, appears to have deeper roots in the Indo-European languages.  According to many linguists (although many others dismiss the derivation as simplistic), the Indo-European words for �daughter� (Sanskrit duhitar, Persian dukhtar, Gothic dauhtar, Lithuanian dukte, Old Church Slavonic dU�ti, Greek thugater, etc.) are derived from the same root, so that the word basically means �milkmaid�, indicating that cattle-breeding was a primary occupation among the Proto-Indo-Europeans.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

there is a coloquial hindi word, dukaria (old woman), which expands both the indic semantic and linguistic fields.