Re: On Greek anthro:pos 'man'

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 70865
Date: 2013-02-01

I suspect a link between gandharva and panther, if it's not related to pardalis/prdarika, perhaps in origin a mythical beast, * gWHandHr-, influenced later by folk-etymological -the:r "beast".

JS Lopes



De: alxmoeller <alxmoeller@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Sexta-feira, 1 de Fevereiro de 2013 5:14
Assunto: Re: [tied] Re: On Greek anthro:pos 'man'

 
On 31.01.2013 17:02, Francesco Brighenti wrote:
 


probably the kentauros and  kantaros are related to each other.... their phonetic appearance are striking appropriate and the meaning ..... well I would say there is something common in both since the mythological kentauros has been a mix of human with horse and the kantaros is a mix of donkey with horse, thus the common part is the horse, maybe there should be something to look for:)

So far I know the word is present in Turkish and Romanian but they are for sure borrowing from New Greek ( see tc katir, rom. catâr)


Alex