From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3348
Date: 2000-08-21
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From: Dennis Poulter <dpoulter@...>
To: <cybalist@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:46 AM
Subject: 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.
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> 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
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> > 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
> >
> > John Croft
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