From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an triú lá déag de mí Méan Fómhair, scríobh Jeff Barnett:   
      
    > Question from a non-linguist:   
    >   
    > My pleasure reading of Oriental fiction and myth seem to frequently run into   
    > the words "Lama" and "Yama". The first usually refers to a holy man and the   
    > second to a God. Of course the words sound fairly similar to my ear. So I am   
    > curious: Are they were derived from a common origin?   
      
   Wikipedia documents the first as Tibetan, with “guru” being the appropriate   
   Sanskrit term, the second is itself Sanskrit. Tibetan is a Sino-Tibetan   
   language, Sanskrit is Indo-European. With them coming from distinct language   
   families, absent other evidence the way to bet is that they are not derived   
   from a common origin.   
      
    > I briefly poked around the internet and found nothing that was based on   
    > anything other than it sounded cute to say "Lama Yama" or "Yama Lama" three   
    > times quickly. Since I really don't know how to find the right hole to   
   force a   
    > search engine into, I thought I'd try you all.   
      
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