Re: On Greek anthro:pos 'man'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:

>
> > I picked a bunch of words with same sequence (-anth-), maybe some

of

> > them have the same origin as word anthro:pos:
> > kantharos "beetle", panthe:r "leopard", xanthos "yellow, brown" (=
> > xouthos), kanthos "eye's corner, akanthos "spine, thorn" It's

interesting

> > the alternation xanthos/xouthos, that doesn't seem IE (xouthos <
> > *xonthos?). If we find a doublet *outhro:pos for anthro:pos? With

-inth-

> > there's minthos and plinthos. Kantharos akin to Skt gandha- "smell",

in a

> > sense of stinky insect?
>
> I still have serious difficulties to understand why "Xanthos/Xouthos
> display a non-IE doublet": I agree they display - if related, which

isn't

> assured - a non-Greek doublet, but this is entirely different from a

non-IE

> one, and the difference is quite crucial (unless one knows a non-IE
> language where both lexemes, xanthos and zouthos, are attested)
>

Greek ksanthós/ksouthós 'yellow' are from Pre-Greek and likely
related to Etruscan zam(a)thi 'gold'. Of course, this doesn't mean ALL
the words with a segment -anth- must necessarily have the same origin.