"ivanovas/milatos" <
ivanova-@...> wrote:
original article:
http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=480
> Hi Pjotr,
> you wrote
> >I've also seen attempts to etymologise Aphrodite as an IE name,
usually as *mbhr- >plus something (cf. Latin imber), with such
semantics as 'rain > water spray > >spindrift > sea foam'
>
> That's not so very difficult when thinking of the fact that 'aphros'
in modern Greek is still 'foam'!
> And thanks very much, Pjotr, for the Hittite love-word (in my
vocabulary 'love' shows as 'ash-sh-ijawar', I thought that was
different)!!
>
> Greetings
>
> Sabine
>
Sabine:
What I meant was that a connection could be established between the
Greek word for "foam" and Aphrodite's name and one of the IE RAIN terms.
Your vocabulary list is right. Both -war, Gen. -unas/-wannas and -tar,
Gen. -nnas (< *-tnas) are very productive noun-forming suffixes (with
the heteroclitic alternation r/n) added to verb stems. The sh/s
business is a matter of spelling. Hittite /s/ is often transliterated
as sh because of the original value of the cuneiform character in
question. It was pronounced [s] in Hittite and corresponds to PIE *s.
Piotr