Re: A Semitic etymology for Odisseus?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Torsten <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

 

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Peter Whale <prw.peter.whale@...> wrote:
>
> The variations you speak off are known in other words as well, and
> they may simply be dialectal or other variants. It is wrong to say
> that they compel us to see a foreign origin. Alternation of d and
> l, for example, is seen in the "tear" word, dakruma / lacruma, the
> "smell" word olor/odor, and a few others. Within a Latin context,
> the patterns fits dialect borrowing.

Which Latin dialects did you have in mind

Sabine, for example.  Yes, evidence is slight, but the pattern is right for dialect variation.
 

> The same is true of Odysseus / Ulysses.

Odysseus being Greek and 'Ulysses' Latin, dialects of which language did you have in mind?

Greek.  Latin picked up the name from a western Dialect.  We know it in the form it has in eastern dialects, especially Attic-Ionic.

Peter