From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 551
Date: 1999-12-12
>across it. The closest Hittite matches I can think of are-<STRONG>ant</STRONG> and -<STRONG>want</STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sorry for expressing myself so unprecisely. The main mistake was calling the thing Anatolian where it is rather Aegean, the second point is my distorted view while working only with -inthos placenames whereas the linguistic element is -nt/-nth/-nd. Already in 1925 P. Kretschmer ( in: Das nt-Suffix, in: Glotta 14) wrote and article about the variants of this suffix and its meaning (Mark, don't try to read it with Alta vista translation! The German is already a little old..., he takes the subject up again in: Die vorgriechischen Sprach- und Volksschichten, in: Glotta 28/1940 and 30/1943). Mainly by comparing placenames he proves the 'belonging to', 'owning or rich in' (may be also 'owned by'?)meaning for this suffix and its variations throughout the Mediterranean (most in the Aegean) and fits it into an IE frame. Hittite has the typical names on -wanda (e.g. Oinawanda, wine-owning; or, for me especially interesting, Millawanda, mil(l)a-owning, the town that later became Miletos/Cretan Milatos: our village still bears that name and I'd love to know what 'mil(l)a-' means! Cf. also later Carian/Lycian Labraunda, probably: (underground) mine-owning; ). Kretschmer even found it in Etruscan. I can't find my copy at the moment, so I can't tell you if/which PIE root he uses as proof, but he is positive the thing is IE (and the placenames as far as I understand him actually prove it).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sorry for having been so vague.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Sabine</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>