From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 1765
Date: 2000-03-03
----- Original Message -----From: Piotr GasiorowskiSent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 12:52 PMSubject: [cybalist] Re: Odp: IE Lithuanian-Mediterranean connections
It seems Sabine's message was corrupt in some way; I couldn't read it in my mail browser, and when I attempted to reply via the Cybalist page some electronic (Elektronikos) monster bit off the end of my final sentence. It should continue (quite predictably):
... any ideas from other Cybalist members?) it is different from the IE "sun" word.
Sorry,
Piotr
Dear Sabine,
Something funny has happened to the Gk characters in your message, but I guess from the context that you regard hElios and Elektron as related. I don't think they can be related, even though ElektOr "beaming sun" is an obvious cousin (and presumably the etymological source) of Elektron. Note that Homer has ElektOr but (very consistently) hEelios; the latter is from *sa:welios with loss of intervocalic *w and aspiration of initial *s (cf. also Cretan a:velios, spelt abelios), and of course IS related to Latin so:l, etc. Dialectal h-dropping occurs in Old Greek, to be sure (there are "sun" words like a:elios or even a:lios), but for Elektron we don't find alternative forms like *Eelektron, *a:lektron or *hElektron anywhere. Nor do we find such variants for the other words of the Elektron family (Elektris, Elektri:nos, ElektrOdes, etc.). ElektOr and Elektron are morphologically Elek+suffix. Whatever the meaning and origin of *Elek- (?*Eleg-, ?*Elekh-, presumably "beam, scorch"; any ide
Piotr