Re: [tied] pan-IE anthroponyms

on 11/30/01 11:03 AM, João Simões Lopes Filho at jodan99@... wrote:

1) Is there any possibily to reconstruct or deduce PIE anthroponyms, at least the meanings?

2) The more usual form of IE anthroponyms are compounds, like Polybios, Leukippos, Sigismund, Sus^rava, Vis^taspa, etc.


*k^lewos "glory"  >   Greek -klees  Sanskrit -s^ravas  Slav -slavu (? corrupted for slovo?)

cf. Euklees = Sus^ravas-  *Su-k^lewos  "good glory"

"animal-names",
horse - Leukippos, Vis^taspa, Krs^as^va, Epona, As^vapati
bear - Bernard, Bjo¨rn, Artognos, Art, Math, Rksha
wolf - Lykourgos, Adolf, Wulfila, Wolfgang

etc

theophoric names

protected by god X; hero of god X, child of god X, animal of god X etc

Thorsteinn, Thorbjo¨rn, Diomedes, Diodoros, Theodoros, etc

3) Why did these compounds almost disappear in Latin?

Latin preferred names like Tullus, Servius, Hostilius, Horatius, Virgilius, Ovidius, etc

Could be the name Lucretia < *Leuko-rotH-ya "White Wheel", parallel to Arianrhod *Argantorota "Silver Wheel".



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Has similar work been done on women's names?
Thanks, Anne