Re: [tied] Danaan as ethnonym.

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 3367
Date: 2000-08-23

And the Indian Danava?
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From: Mark Odegard
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 5:11 PM
Subject: [tied] Danaan as ethnonym.

Following up my earlier post, the Tuatha De Danaan do come to mind here. The teuto-word, plus some reflex of the da-/dan- root. I've not studied Celtic mythology much, but the Tuatha De Danaan seem to have been mythical from the start, stories from earlier times on the continent, preserved and retold in Ireland, with the places shifted largely to Ireland.
 
Is it fair to say 'Danaan' should be seen as a fundamental IE ethnonym, at the level of say 'Aryan', words ancient IE peoples used to describe themselves?
 
Mark.