Re: [tied] Re: Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.

Remember that archaic Poseidon was not primarily linked to water or sea. So,
*Poti-dahon have no relation to "water" or "river" necessarily.

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Subject: [tied] Re: Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.


> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Eris
> > To: cybalist@...
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 9:02 PM
> > Subject: [tied] Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.
> >
> >
> > > [snip] Now, someone mentioned the possibility of *Potis-Da:nuom.
> Is -om on Da:nuom supposed to be the genetive ending in IE? And, if
> so, what is the -s ending for on Potis? (And why wouldn't it be -ei
> or -e or something of the sort?) Would it be reasonable to think
> that the full version of that would have been Nepotisda:nuom?
> >
> > I don't remember exactly who proposed what in the heat of that old
> discussion, but:
> >
> > (1) *-om is the normal PIE Gen.pl. ending,
> >
> > (2) *potis is the Nom.sg. form,
> >
> > so something like *potis da:nwom was supposed to be a phrase
> meaning "lord of the waters".
> >
> >
> >
> > > I think something along the lines of Poseidahon was also
> suggested. If someone could remind me again, why
> the "dahon", "daon", "danuom", or whatever it was? Is that what was
> derived from the IE *dan*/*dheu/*dhen word?
> >
> > Archaic versions of Poseidon's name include uncontracted
> <poseidao:n>, <poteidawo:n>, <poti:dao:n> and the like.
> >
> > My own view, BTW, is that the "PIE word" in question, insofar as it
> is reconstructable at all, is *d(a)h2nu-s ('[big] river'?) with the
> adjectival derivative *dah2neu-jo-s. I'm rather sceptical of deriving
> too much from it.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> Re: *pot-
> Is this helpful?
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/pot.html
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> Torsten
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