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| | Linguistic aspects of the Aryan non-invasion theory |
 | | The early dictionaries suggested a connection between Tibetan lama, written and originally pronounced as blama, and Sanskrit brahÂma (S.C. Das 1902:900); blama is derived from bla-, "upper, high" (as in (b)La-dakh, "high mountain-pass"), and doesn't Sanskrit bRh-, root of brahma, mean "to grow", i.e. |
 | | go); and, more recently, lion (shi, Iranian sher). |
 | | This doesn't add new inforÂmation on the Urheimat question, for the IE-speaking cattle-breeders in Northwest China could have come from anywhere, but it confirms our image of the relations between the tea-drinking Chinese farmers (till today, milk is a rarity in the Chinese diet) and the milk-drinking "barbarians" on their borders. |
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