Indo-Iranian

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>Georg at home.ivm.de writes:

<< Though, would archaicity of language *alone*
>*really* justify such a drastic readjustment of historical dates ?  >>

-- perhaps not alone, but it's pretty startling.  The Rig-Veda is
conventionally dated before 1000 BCE, usually well before, and you get
correspondences like (in Sanskrit - S, Avestan - Av and Proto-Indo-Iranian,
PII):

S       tam amavantam yajatam
Av      taem amavantaem yazataem
PII     *tam amavantam yajatam

        suram dhamasu savistham
        suraem damohu saevistaem
        *curam dhamasu cavistham

        mitram yajai hotrabhyah
        mithram yazai zaothrabyo
        *mitram yajai jhaurabhyas