Re: [tied] Re: The Philistines

From: george knysh
Message: 19682
Date: 2003-03-11

--- Jo�o_Sim�es_Lopes_Filho <jodan99@...>
wrote:
> tyrannos is also currently linked to the Etruscan
> name of Venus, Turan.
> But it's hard to me not link *tyrrhenos to IE
> *dHrsu- "strong, bold".
> tyrrhenos, thyrsenos < *tHursenos
> tusculus < *torscolos < *tRsko-los < Greek *thurs-?

*****GK: Just in passing. What would be your reading
of the tribal name AGATHYRSI (Herodotus)?
AGA===THYRSI? What would "AGA" be here? Snake,
Mountain? ??******


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