In a message dated 28/02/01 20:54:11 GMT Standard Time,
glengordon01@... writes:
> Thesan... dunno. It appears native. Note the -an suffix that appears all
> over the place (Sethl-an-s, Tur-an)
This word may have a Caucasian connection. The usual translation is Aurora,
dawn, morning. If we accept the analogy aurum/aurora, there is a remarkable
similarity to the Nakh word for gold, deshi. Funnily enough, Theseus, or
These in Etruscan, was searching for the *golden* fleece.
Some other divine names have apparent related words in Nakh as well:
Vanth, an Etruscan infernal deity may be related to the Etruscan word valar,
'death', which may in turn be related to the Nakh root ven-/vel- 'to die'.
Calu, another infernal deity is reminiscent of the Nakh k'alxe 'bottom, 'down
below'.
Ani, Etruscan for Janus, god living in the highest heaven, i.e. the far
north, is reminiscent of Nakh ?an 'winter'.
Tin, Etruscan for Zeus and 'day', reminiscent of Nakh den 'day'.
Most bizarrely Thalana/Thalna, which d'Aversa describes as the Etruscan deity
present during 1. sexual intercourse and 2. birth, is reminiscent of Nakh
d.aalan which means both 1. 'to enter' and 2. 'to arrive'.
Ed. Robertson