Re: Tyndarus = Thunraz = Taranis ?

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<jodan99@...>
wrote:

> Is it possible to connect the name of Spartan king Tyndareos with *

(s)ten@ "to thunder"???

> cf. Latin tona:re "to thunder", Common Germanic Thunraz (Thorr,

Donar, Thunor, thunder), Celtic Taranis/Tanaros and Sanskrit
Tanayitnu (epithetus of Indra).

I understood he took his name from a locality in Sparta. Perhaps the
Creek he was named after "thundered".

Regards

John