Re: [tied] Agamemnon?

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "H�kan Lindgren" <h5@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 7:47 AM
> Subject: [tied] Agamemnon?
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> > Eavesdropping here.... What is the etymology of
> the name Agamemnon?
> >
> > Hakan
>
> Probably aga- + *m�n-mo:n 'staunch in battle' (cf.
> meno: 'stand fast, abide', Menela:os < *mene-la:wos.
> The prefix <aga-> occurs in several other old names
> as well as common adjectives like <aga-klut�s> 'very
> famous' or (Homeric) <ag�-nnipHos> (*-snigWHos)
> 'very snowy'.
>
> Piotr

*****GK: I take it then that "AGATHYRSOI" might be
interpreted as "the very bold" or "the very strong"?
As a Greek version of some non-Greek name it would be
in the same category as the name of the Callipidae.
Would you take a tentative stab at how "AGATHYRSOI"
(in the above sense might) be rendered in Iranic?****

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