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

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

******GK: I have very serious doubts about both
TIRGUTAWIYA and TIRGATAO being Indo-Aryan, despite the
fact that they appear in Indo-Aryan contexts. I still
think, however that there is something that binds all
these names together. Can there be an explanation of
[T-*-R-G-*-T-&] by reference to a non-IE language?
(Not Turkic or English please!!!)One that can be
linked to the locations where the cult of the
Fish-Goddess is attested> Like Babylonian or some West
Semitic language.*****

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