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From: Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Lama and Yama
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:15:42 -0600
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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?

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.
-- 
Jeff Barnett