Re: People of the Rivers, chapter 2a

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

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[snip]

> SUMMARY TIME
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> So in summary, we should better reconstruct an IndoTyrrhenian

ethnonymic

> phrase following normal grammatical rules, *[Lexwe T:exan

dei] "People at

> the Rivers". A phrasal contraction a la French creates *lexwe-

t:exan. From

> there, we arrive at Etruscan /lautn/ and an unattested Mid IE

*lexudéxr by

> regular phonetics. The only major hurdle is to get from this Mid IE
> *lexudéxr to IE *?leudhros, something that may only be explainable

via a

> homonymic corruption, a process that one may choose to disbelieve.
>

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>
> - gLeN

So I thought: What would happen if some IE speaker then tried to
translate the concept *[Lexwe T:exan dei] "People at the Rivers" into
his own language, substituting an IE word for 'people', and getting
the <dei> wrong in the process? Would he get:

Tuatha Dé Danaan ?

Word order has been reversed, as anybody would have known the should.
Why does Da:nu have to have the epithet 'Goddess'? Wouldn't everyone
know she was? Is it a misunderstanding (and possibly mine, of course)?

Torsten