brahmin/flamen

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>maxdashu at LanMinds.Com writes:

>I read recently that this correspondence has been challenged, although it
>looks reasonable. Anyone know about the current consensus on it?

-- as far as I know it's regarded as doubtful.  brahmin/flamen (and Old
Persian 'brazman' etc.) would require a PIE form something like *bhlaghmen,
and there's no evident reflex of PIE *gh in the Latin form