Re: [tied] The Russian God Svarog

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From: "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The Russian God Svarog



> That's making more sense! After quoting Puhvel's statement that
> Svaroz^ic^i was the diminutive form of Svarog, I started thinking
> that it's pretty presumptious of mortals to call a deity (even a
> minor one) by a diminutive name. A patronymic strikes me as a bit
> odd (maybe because I'm not a Slav), but at least it's respectful!

The diminutive form would be *-IcI (< *-iko-), not *-itjI. A patronymic is
hardly odd in the Slavic context, especially if we assume that it was
originally added to a "first name", e.g. *dadjIbogU svaroz^itjI 'Dazhbog,
son of Svarog'.

Piotr