navigate, naval, navasana

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navigate, naval, navasana

Postby William Hupy » Mon May 12, 2014 11:53 am

This morning in yoga class we were lead in the "boat pose" to which I responded "navasana" which is boat pose in yoga lingo. Our good teacher realized how close this sounded to the above word and I gave her the explanation that both share a common origin from the great proto Indo European language. She was a bit skeptical and asked me to prove it. I had previously engaged in communication with someone from Dr. Goodword about this, but can not locate that correspondence. Help!
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Re: navigate, naval, navasana

Postby Slava » Mon May 12, 2014 10:42 pm

Hmm, I recognize the idea of the "nav" root being related, but is the Sanskrit root truly part and parcel of the PIE root? That is to say, are they related?
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Re: navigate, naval, navasana

Postby William Hupy » Tue May 13, 2014 8:47 am

Yes. I was in communication with someone at this site and she confirmed it, but I deleted that string and am not clever enough to do my own research. How do linguists research these issues?
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