Re: Odp: The Solar Goddess.

From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 480
Date: 1999-12-08

��<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=unicode" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2014.210" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Hi Pjotr,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">you wrote</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>>I've also seen attempts to etymologise Aphrodite as an IE name, usually as *<STRONG>mbhr</STRONG>- >plus something (cf. Latin <STRONG>imber</STRONG>), with such semantics as 'rain > water spray > >spindrift > sea foam'</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>That's not so very difficult when thinking of the fact that 'aphros' in modern Greek is still 'foam'!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>And thanks very much, Pjotr, for the Hittite love-word (in my vocabulary 'love' shows as 'ash-sh-ijawar', I thought that was different)!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Greetings</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Sabine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>