Res: [tied] The -SG- in Greek (PELASGOS)

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:

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> What is the IE root for Pallas? Is it related to *pel- (vel sim)
"gray"? Or is the statement that Athena had gray eyes etiological?
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According to Puhvel, Pallas simply means "maid". Liddell and Scott
write cf. 'pallax' "youth".
I can't find an authoritative statement but I assume the I.E. root
is Mallory and Adams' WC *pelh- "bear young" (E. "foal").
Dan Milton