Re: Marduk = Marut = Marutash ?

On 2008-10-09 18:03, stlatos wrote:

> Both *eurus and *urus 'broad, wide' existed. The wide sky was called
> *euru-nos with metathesis in Indic.
> For *euru-nos, Greek changed u > ou in some cases

Strange. It didn't do so in <eurús>. Besides, Gk. has dialectal forms
wit initial <ora-> and <o:ra->, pointing to older *(w)orsano- or
*(w)orwano-.

> (compare Skt urvara:-, G aroura 'field' and *wedn/udn()- '(wet?)
> soil' > Arm getin, G edaphos, oudas) and dissimilated u-u > u-a by r
> (similar to L *ururo- > *aruro- > *aruo- > arvum and so on).

Yep. You achieve great things with the liberal use of metatheses and
dissimilations ;). <aroura> 'arable land' is generally regarded as a
Greek derivative of *h2arh3-wr./*h2r.h3-wen-, and <arvus> surely comes
from the same root. On the other hand, Skt. urvara: is difficult to
separate from <urvi:> 'earth, soil' (= 'the wide one') and so ultimately
from urú- 'wide'.

> The existence of both Varun.a = Ouranos and urvara: = aroura makes
> the connection almost beyond doubt, especially since the existence of
> Urwana- implies metathesis in at least one word.

If I were to connect the two theonyms, I'd opt for something like
*wor(h)-wn.n-o- ~ *worh-un-o-.

Piotr