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Justin M. Mott jmott at babel.ling.upenn.edu
Thu Feb 1 18:23:19 UTC 2001


On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Kreso Megyeral wrote:

> Kastytis Beitas wrote:

> Russian "bilo" is a noun derived from the verb "bit'" - to beat, meaning
> that it CAN be related to Hindi, but it could be clear only if someone knew
> the Sanskrit word.

Hindi billI < Skt. biDAlI, of obscure (but definitely non-IE) origin.

-Justin Mott



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