Re: [tied] Indo-European Personal Names

Curiously Latin didnt retain this compund names. There's no *Albilupus or
*Rubrequus.

Other IE pattern are the names in *-k^lewos (Greek -klees, Slav -slavu,
Sansk -srava)

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Subject: [tied] Indo-European Personal Names


> URL: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
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> One interesting pattern is that many of them are compounds,
> like Rudolf (Germanic: red wolf), Leucippus (Greek: white
> horse), etc. It might be interesting to catalogue the recognizable
> parts of these names ("Horse" is common in Greek names and
> "wolf" in Germanic names, for example)
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> That URL has not only a discussion of ancestral Indo-European
> linguistic and cultural inferences, but also a similar treatment of
> ancestral Semitic. One interesting pan-Semitic feature is names
> like <> of <some deity>, and even sentences mentioning some
> deity. However, that sort of pattern is not very common among IE
> personal names, though some of them are compounds that
> include deity names.
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