Re: [tied] Basques words for GOD, SUN, MOON and SKY/HEAVEN; OGMIOS

Must egu(n) "day" be related to Ogmios/Ogme, sometimes associated with the
sun, described as "sun-faced".

Joao SL
Rio

----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...>
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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Basques words for GOD, SUN, MOON and SKY/HEAVEN


> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, João wrote:
>
> >Since you're a specialist in Basque, what are the words in Proto-Basque
for
> >GOD, SUN, MOON and SKY/HEAVEN.
>
> "God" is <jainko>, <jaungoiko> (*e-aun goi-ko), literally "lord on
> high".
> "Sun" is <eguzki> or <ekhi>, both which contain the root *egu(n)-
> "day".
> "Moon" is (h)ilargi, a compound of *(h)il- (the original word for
> moon, but homophonous with *(h)il- "to die"), and *argi- "bright".
>
> "Sky, heaven" is usually <zeru> nowadays, a borrowing from Romance
> *tselu (< caelum), but there's another word <osti> (< *ortzi) which
> means "sky; storm", and may also have been a word for God, according
> to one of the first reports we have on the Basque language: the 12th
> century French pilgrim Aimery Picaud reported the Basque word for God
> as "Urcia" (ortzi-a). But maybe he pointed to the sky, and simply got
> the word for "the sky" in reply to his query.
>
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