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Vedic āhanás- and its relatives/cognates within and outside Indo-Iranian
This paper discusses possible etymological connections of two Vedic forms that are considered problematic in Mayrhofer’s etymological dictionary, ¯ahanás- ‘lustful, obscene’ and jaghána- ‘genitals, pubis’.
I argue that there are good reasons to connect these formations with the root han ‘beat, strike, hit, kill’ (< PIE *gwhen-), originally probably denoting repeated strikes or lashes. This meaning could easily develop the secondary semantics ‘perform sexual movements, have sex’, which, ultimately, must underlie such derivatives as ¯ahanás- and jaghána-.
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- Kulikov, L.
- Date
- 2018
- Title of host publication
- Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Sasha Lubotsky
- Pages
- 153 - 161
- ISBN (print)
- 9780989514248