Re: [tied] Re: Dumezil, Trito and Athena: MY IE main Gods

Modern Arabic /shams/ "sun" is actually feminine (although it looks
masculine), and /qamar/ "moon" is masculine.
Shams is one of very few feminine words in Arabic that don't carry the
feminine termination /-a(h)/-at-/. The only others I can think of are
/?umm/ "mother", /suuq/ "market" which is usually feminine, but can be
masculine, and /Tariiq/ "road, way" which can be either.
I was told that the sun is seen as a cruel and raddled old hag while the
moon is a radiant young man.

Cheers
Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 21 August, 2000 9:16 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Dumezil, Trito and Athena: MY IE main Gods


> Joao wrote
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> > I think the couple Lord Moon and Lady Sun was a North European
> Pattern (Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, maybe Celtic) and not an IE
> heritage. However, it was ever difficult for me to define the IE Moon
> gender.
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> The Hittite sun was feminine too Joao. Masculine sun's seem to be
> Umero-Akkadian in origin originally. It goes through into modern
> Arabic I understand (Dennis can you help here?). It would seem that
> the further away from the Mediterranean and Middle East you go, and
> the further back into the past you go, the more sun is feminine.
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> Regards
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> John Croft
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