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

Kulikov, Leonid
(2018) Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Sasha Lubotsky — ISBN: [9780989514248], p. 153–161, published

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This paper discusses possible etymological connections of two Vedic forms that are considered problematic in Mayrhofer’s etymological dictionary, āhanás- ‘lustful, obscene’ and jaghána- ‘genitals, pubis’. In §§2 and 3, I will 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 āhanás- and jaghána-. §4 focuses on the reflexes of PIE *gwhen- in Slavic, paying special attention to possible traces of its secondary meaning ‘have sex’.
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Kulikov, L. (2018). Vedic āhanás- and its relatives/cognates within and outside Indo-Iranian. In Lubotsky, Sasha (honoree) (ed.), Farnah: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European studies in honor of Sasha Lubotsky (p. p. 153–161). Beech Stave Press. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/224895