Re: Titan < Kwitan ?????

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:

> I think that relation between Titan and titanos are just folk-

etymology.

> Titanos plausibly <*k^wit-, but Titan seems more non-Greek, maybe

non-IE

> too.

If Titan is non-Greek, non-IE, could Greek titanos also come from
this source, or is there an established etymology for titanos?

Cort Williams

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> > --- In cybalist@..., "Christopher Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > > (3), based on the interpretation of the names
> > > > themselves.
> > > > And the word Titan (Greek Ti:tán), which was used by the Latin
> > > poets as a
> > > > name for the 'sun', probably is derived from IE kweit-

, "bright",

> > a
> > > suitable
> > > > epithet for a shining planet/star.
> > >
> > > Pokorny would agree - Titanos coming from *kuit-@..., from

*kuei-

> > > "white/shine" (though he compares to Greek titanos "chalk").
> > >
> > > - Chris Gwinn
> >
> > The chalk origin makes sense to me based on Jane Ellen Harrison's
> > Themis, where she describes a ritual where men would cover

themselves

> > in chalk to assume the identity of the titans.
> >
> > Cort Williams
> >
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