Re: [tied] Ilios

I heard once about the name Wiluhati as a word for Troy in an ancient Oriental language. Does this have to do something with Luvian Wilusati? Maybe an Iranian language borrowed it from Luvian.

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Van: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]
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Onderwerp: [tied] Ilios

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:19 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Ilios

One more thing:

King Mutatallis (the first decades of the 13th c. BC) entered into a treaty with the Hittite vassal Prince Alaksandus of Wilusiya, whose identification with Alexander a.k.a. Paris of Troy, is difficult to resist.

Yves asks:

In Homer's Iliad there is usually a hiate before the word Ilios. Why? According to a Greek dictionary there has never excisted such a thing as (w)Ilios.

The dictionary is wrong. The Homeric formula (W)ilios aipeine^ 'steep Ilios' is, as Calvert Watkins has shown, parallelled by Luvian alati Wilusati 'from steep Wilusa' (occurring twice in a song from the 16th c. BC dealing with the city of Wilusa = Gk. *Wilios = Ilios).

Piotr