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Trita ptya, eine vedische Gottheit. I. Inauguraldissertation von K. Rnnow. (Uppsala Universitets rsskrift, 1927, Filosofi, Sprkvetenskap och Historiska Vetenskaper 5.). 8vo. pp. xxviii + 189, 2. Uppsala, 1927.

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L. D. Barnett.
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1928 , pp. 145 - 148
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page 145 note 1 This etymology, I must confess, seems to me very doubtful. The Vedic apty, which is perhaps connected, is of obscure meaning. An Indo-Eur. suffix -tio lack-evidence and so does an Indo-Ir. -tya after consonants. Even the Hindus were not quite happy about it, as we see from Taitt.-Br. 3, 2, 8, 9 ff. (quoted by Rnnow, Dr. on p. 30)Google Scholar, which gives a double derivation, first taking the word as pya-, from p-, and then as tmya-, from tman-. (Does not this fact, by the way, suggest that at the time of the composition of the Taitt.-Br. the Prakrit pronunciation of tman- was already appa-, or something very like it ?). The Avestan wya indicates, as Bartholom has remarked, that the early Indo-Ir. form was tpya-, a word which was already unintelligible in pre-Vedic times, and which was therefore altered by the Aryans of India to ptya-, by false etymology from p- or pta-, or both.

page 146 note 1 It is worth pointing in this connection to the remarkable Varun nga-rj, J.P.T.S., 1885, p. 14.Google Scholar