Re: [tied] Targitaos, "father of all Scythians"

Absolutely clear??? All that we know about Mitannic Tirgutawija is that it was a woman's name. We don't know it it was theophoric, we don't know if it was really Indo-Aryan or maybe Hurrian. If I could be sure that the real pronunciation was something like *dirgatawija, I'd support the theory was Indo-Aryan *di:rgHa-tawi:- in disguise, which of course would leave Derketo/Tirgata as accidentally similar. That Tirgatao was Indo-Aryan and related to Tirgutawija is Trubachev's assumption, ventured without a shred of concrete evidence. After all, you can find phonetically similar names even in English, e.g. Targett or Thurgood.

Piotr

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From: george knysh

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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 1:33 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Targitaos, "father of all Scythians"
*****GK: What can you do with: [a]T/D*/-(i,a)-R-G/K*/-(a,i,u,e)-T- (ao,a,a-os,o,is). It is absolutely clear that the differences between the Syrian, Mitannian, Pontic Indian, "Greek", and Herodotan names refer to the same name in different cultural contexts. The distinction between T and D, and G and K doesn't matter hermeneutically (it is obvious that Philistine Derketo and Syrian Tirgata are the same Fish-Goddess. So this leaves you with some variable vowels (*) and endings (&) and a solid core [ T-*-R-G-*-T-& ]of identical consonants. What language? What meaning?****