Odp: the Phrygian word 'bekos'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1265
Date: 2000-01-30

 
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From: DEROUBAIX YVES
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Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 11:24 AM
Subject: [cybalist] the Phrygian word 'bekos'

Hello,



Rex told me many things about the Phrygians, but I asked to tell me which
proto-Indo-european the word 'bekos' come from and I asked to give me some
related words in other Indo-european languages (like Sanskrit, Latin, Greek,
Gothic, Old-Church-Slavonic, Lithuanian, Avestan or Tocharic).
It was Psamtik's learned priests who informed him that BEKOS was Phrygian. Who knows if they knew what they were talking about? But I suppose we must believe Herodotus -- he was in a position to check out that detail. If bekós is genuine, it could be related to some or all of the following: Greek phag- 'eat'; pho:g- 'roast, parch'; English bake (Old English bacan/bo:c/-bacen).
 
Piotr