[tied] Re: Khaos and Eros

I know that Aristophanes was comedian, so don't be based to much on
him.
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:

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> "At the beginning there was only Khaos (Air), Nyx (Night), dark

Erebos (Darkness), and deep Tartaros (Hell's Pit). Ge (Earth), Aer
(Air) [probably meaning Aither the upper air] and Ouranos (Heaven)
had no existence. Firstly, black-winged Nyx (Night) laid a germless
egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos (Darkness), and
from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful
Eros [Himeros the elder eros] with his glittering golden wings." -
Aristophanes, The Birds 685

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> What's the etymology of Himeros??? Could be Him- < *Yem-,

linking him to Yama, Ymir, etc. ???

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> Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> escreveu:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"

<tgpedersen@> wrote:

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> > > What does the *h1erh2- root mean? Is it "separate, adjoin" as
> > >Abdullah Konushevci reported, or is it closer to "desire,

love"?

> I
> > >don't see how the meaning "desire, love" could have arisen
> > >from "separate, adjoin" or have related words meaning "border"
> > >or "dissolve".
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> > Well, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and then your borders
> will
> > dissolve.
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> > That was rather elegant. Maybe I should write an etymological
> > dictionary? ;-)
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> > Torste
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> What do you think about erotikos 'hidden love'. So, not publicly,
> but separately.
> It seems we all need much exercises on semantics.
> Take, for example, semitic root hrm 'to ban, to forbid':

haram 'evil

> thing', mahram 'something forbidden', harem 'inviolable place,
> ihram 'state of ritual purity of pilgrims to Mecca',
> muharrem 'sacred month'.
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