Re: Odp: IE Lithuanian-Mediterranean connections

From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 1740
Date: 2000-03-02

��<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hello,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sergej writes on the subject of the Russian word for amber that its meaning is:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>" 'a burning stone of white', which can hardly be explained on a Russian basis and may well be a semantic carbon copy."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, if you are looking for a 'Lehnuebersetzung' (sorry don't know the English word), tell us if you find one.</DIV> <DIV>The ancient Greek '��������' is connected to '�������', meaning shining, radiance, glare  (cf. '�����' sun which in its ancient form seems to be cognate with Lat. 'sol' : '��F�����').</DIV> <DIV>So the Greeks named amber 'the bright shining one'. Did that come from the same source or were they all only describing the stones they saw?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sabine</DIV></BODY></HTML>