From: João S. Lopes Filho
Message: 8606
Date: 2001-08-18
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Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Odin as a Trojan Prince
> --- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> > Well, I was not saying that in IE mythology the horse is allways
> associated to apocalyptical destruction, but that there's some traits
> of an older myth involving a horse (or a mare) in a kind of proto-
> Ragnarok. There was also traits of supernatural horses helping
> heroes, like Pegasus or Areion. Speaking of Pegasos... could be
> ending -asos akin to Indo-Iranian ashva?
> > So, Pe:gasos < * Bhaga-asva "Godly Horse"? Perhaps originally
> *Bagasos, later due folk-etymological association with pe:ge: "well,
> fountain" turned into Pa:gasos?
> >
> >
> > Joao SL
> > Rio, Brazil
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> Or rather "gift horse"?
> This is from EIEC
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> Bagaios epithet of Zeus Phrygian
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> As for the bh/p thing, it is one of the alternations, Møller proposes
> to account for Noreen's "Wechselformen" (alternating forms), eg. (and
> case in point)
> *-bh- :
> flumen Latin
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> vs.
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> *-p- :
> pluit Latin
> flood English
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> Torsten
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