Re: Gk. Lyssa

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> The derivation from *wlkW-j-h2 'wolf-ness' > *lukja is one of the
> most likely etymologies of <lussa ~ lutta>, supported e.g. by

Calvert

> Watkins:
>
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE589.html
>
> Personification seems more likely than the conjectural existence of

a

> PIE she-wolf demon, for which I can't see any comparative evidence
> (and the lacunous attestation in Greek, as you point out yourself,

is

> an additional problem). Perhaps somebody else on the list has heard
> of parallel spirit names from other branches.
>
> Piotr

<Vilkija`>, which is a nice formal counterpart of <lussa>, is a
_toponym_ still found here and there in Lithuania. Never heard of any
mythological/religious applications, though.

Sergei