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Vedic āhanás- and its relatives/cognates within and outside Indo-Iranian

P. 153–161.
Kulikov L.

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-. The paper further focuses on possible reflexes of PIE *gwhen- in Slavic,

Language: English
Keywords: VedicРигведаProto-Indo-Europeanведийский санскритведийская филологияпраиндоевропейский языкVedic philologyRgvedaobscene lexiconсексуальный словарь

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