Re: [tied] Linear A as an early form of Indo-European

I think there's a Hittite god named Istanush.

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> "Alwin K." wrote:
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> > Of Athena she says "her name
> > transparently means sun (atano- cf Luwian
> > astanus)" while I have never come across a Luwian word
> > astanus for 'sun' (the only word meaning 'sun'is
> > tiwat-, ultimately from PIE *diu-).
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> hmm... the nearest thing that occurs to my (admittedly non-linguist)
> mind is from Egyptian: Aten, the sun-disc so beloved of Pharaoh
Ankhenaten.
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