Re: [tied] Re: Titan < Kwitan ?????

I think that relation between Titan and titanos are just folk-etymology.
Titanos plausibly <*k^wit-, but Titan seems more non-Greek, maybe non-IE
too.

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Subject: [tied] Re: Titan < Kwitan ?????


> --- In cybalist@..., "Christopher Gwinn" <sonno3@...> wrote:
> >
> > > (3), based on the interpretation of the names
> > > themselves.
> > > And the word Titan (Greek Ti:tán), which was used by the Latin
> > poets as a
> > > name for the 'sun', probably is derived from IE kweit-, "bright",
> a
> > suitable
> > > epithet for a shining planet/star.
> >
> > Pokorny would agree - Titanos coming from *kuit-@..., from *kuei-
> > "white/shine" (though he compares to Greek titanos "chalk").
> >
> > - Chris Gwinn
>
> The chalk origin makes sense to me based on Jane Ellen Harrison's
> Themis, where she describes a ritual where men would cover themselves
> in chalk to assume the identity of the titans.
>
> Cort Williams
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