Re: [tied] Re: hades

An older etymology derives <(h)a:(i)de:s> from *n.-wid-ah2- 'invisible'.

Slavic adU ~ jadU 'hell, abyss' is, I believe, a loan from New Testament Greek (<hadEs>) via Old Church Slavic. The initial /j/ is a variable prothetic consonant, as in ablUko ~ jablUko (cf. Russ. and Bulg. ad 'hell'). Greek had lost initial /h/ by the time the word was borrowed (note, however, Mod. Serb. had 'hell' with a restored Classical aspirate). Another common (especially non-Orthodox) word used to translate 'hell' in Slavic languages is *pIkUlU 'cauldron for boiling pitch' > Pol. piekl/o, Cz. peklo (also --> Hung. pokol).

Piotr

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> From: "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
> > > Hades= brother of Zeus and Poseidon .As the three brothers shared
> > the
> > > world, Poseidon took the meers, Zeus the world and hades the
> > underworld
> > >
> > > Is the Greek word Hades to read as "eades"?
> > > Alex
> > ******
> > Puhvel has "Hades < Indo-European *Smwidas (Homeric A[w]id- <
> > *Smwid-) as 'Uniter' (sam-gam- 'get-together', sam-vid- 'find [one
> > another]' are the Vedic terms for the reunion of the dead with
> > their [fore]fathers." The comforting myth we'll be together again
> > after death
> > Dan
>
> I asked because the word for "hell" in Rom. is "iad". DEX gives it as
> slavic "jadU".
> I am not aware of the existence & meaning of slavic. What should Slavic
> "jadU" mean and which is teh etymology of it?
>
> Alex