Re: IAPETOS x JAFETH

From: John Croft
Message: 4343
Date: 2000-10-14

--- In cybalist@egroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<jodan99@...>
wrote:
> Is ther any Semitic etymology for Yepheth ? Is it the same as Greek
Titan Iapetos? Or perhaps the two people borrowed him from a third
mythology?

I have been interested in this for some time and have proposed that
it was Asianic. I have never found a cognate that works though.

Regards

John