Notes and Queries, Vol. 5: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June, 1882 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Francis, John

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ISBN 10: 0266463827 ISBN 13: 9780266463825

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Notes and Queries, Vol. 5: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc.; January-June, 1882

I conclude, therefore, that mare and its congeners, as applied to the ocean by all the indo-european races except the Greeks, are derived from the root mdr in its active causative sense.

Mara in Sanskrit means an arid desert without water - a strange term to apply to the ever-moving active liquid sea. It would be lucus a non lucendo with a vengeance.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0266463827
• ISBN 13: 9780266463825
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 536
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