Re: [tied] Odysseus - Ulysses

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45681
Date: 2006-08-11

Variants Odysseus, Olysseus, Olyseus, Olytteus, O:lusseus, Oulikseus, Oulikse:s

Alternation d/l is present in daphne/laphne, labyrinthos/da-pu-ri-to



P&G <G&P@...> escreveu:
>Odysseus - Ulysses
>Whence did these opposing names for a single character emerge? Was the
>latter an Etruscan change of some sort?

The relationship is unclear. There are forms with -l- already in Greek (see
Sihler "New Comparative Greek and Latin Grammar" section 151), but it could
also be part of the sound change d > l in some Latin words, which is
possibly simply dialect borrowing.

Peter


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