Re: [tied] Thessalia's etymology: Thessalos/Phettalos

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 20671
Date: 2003-04-02

Thus, if this word had a cognate in Macedonia, would be *bezalos.

*gWHedH-j- ...or can be gWHedH-w- ? Or some non-IE root?


Joao SL

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----- Original Message -----
From: "João Simões Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...>
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Subject: [tied] Thessalia's etymology: Thessalos/Phettalos


> What is the etymology of Thessalia? Thessalos has a dialectal variant
Phettalos, what points to a *gWHe(ss)alos. "ss" may have many origins.

Also Thettalos (Attic) and Petthalos (Thessalian). Not all sources of
<-ss-/-tt-> are likely in this case. For example, *-Ts- would have given
Attic -s-, and *gWHet- is not a plausible PIE root. <pettHalos> suggests an
original root with two aspirated stops. How about *gWHedH-j-, from the
'wish, pray, expect' (as in Gk. potHos, -tHestos, etc.)?

Piotr





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