[tied] Re: Apollo

I was thinking liuna could be associated with the Luwian, luha, form
IE leuk, a light. However, to follow out a possible Pelasgian
connection, as before appa is Tyrhenian for father, and liuna-s is
similar to the latin, luna or the gen. Lunai; moon. Luna is also with
the IE leuk. However, in Italy there as a Tyrrhenian goddess,
Lusna/Losna, in latin Lûna, patron or the Etruscan city of Lusna-
Lûna, today called Luni.

This is the strange, as Lusna/Losna was also known as Uni, and in
differing aspects Tana and Leukothea. Tana was used for the full moon
and Leuk-othea, literally means the power or rays of the moon.
Clearly Leuk-othea includes the root leuk, the luwian luha, and latin
luna. Could luina be a Tyrrhenian masculine form of Lusna. Or could
lûna, luha, and leuk be derived from a Pelasgian/Tyrrhenian loan
word (similar to luina)?

Silenus also appears similar to the root of the Hellenic, selên-e,
lunar and selên-itês, selen (moon) ites (lithos) moon-stone.

JS Crary