not "contract".

Meillet's analysis also "rectified earlier interpretations" that suggested that the Indo-Iranian common noun *mitra- had anything to do with the light or the sun. When H. Lommel suggested that such an association was implied in the Younger Avesta (since the 6th century BCE), that too was conclusively dismissed. Today, it is certain that "(al)though Mi?ra is closely associated with the sun in the Avesta, he is not the sun" and "Vedic Mitra is not either."

Old Persian Mi?ra or Mi?^ra

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