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Varuṇa, god of the sea and the sky
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
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In a previous article I have connected Sanskrit and Pali bharu “sea” and Pali maru “desert”, “sand-desert”, and have shown that these words were probably borrowed by Indo-Aryan from one or several non-Aryan languages. Malay baroh denotes “low-lying country”, “sea-shore”, “sea”. The dialects of the Malay Peninsula have baruh “plain”, “flatland”, baruk, barok “shore”, and bâruh “sea”. Sometimes the initial is reduced. In Bahnar âr denotes “marsh”, “swampy district”, or “low-lying damp terrain near to watercourses”. Annamite has preserved the initial, but the final liquid has become i: *bar > bai “coast”, “shore”, “strand”.
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page 613 note 1 Bulletin de la Soctété de Linquistique, 1930, pp. 196 sqq.
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page 614 note 1 M. Marcel Cohen calls my attention to Guèze (Classic Ethiopian) baḥr “stretch of water” and Amharic baraha “desert”.
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