Re: [tied] Re: hades

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> <dmilt1896@...>
> wrote:
>
> > THe Finnish Devil 'Perkele'. Is his name
> borrowed from the
> > Baltic?
>
> Uotila explains Fin. <perkele> 'devil (a
> swear-word)' < *perkeleh <
> Baltic *perk- found in <Perk�:nas> 'thunder god' and
> its diminutives
> <Perku:ne:~lis>, <Perke:~lis> (I must admit I've
> never heard this
> last variant), positing the semantic development
> from sacred
> ('thunder god') to pejorative ('devil') in Finnish.
>
> Sergei

*****GK: Good opportunity to ask. Baltic Perkunas is
usually identified with Slavic Perun and with one of
the alternative appellatives of the Indic Indra. But
whence the "k" in Perkunas? ******

>
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