[tied] Re: hades

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 20811
Date: 2003-04-06

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> --- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"
> > <dmilt1896@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > THe Finnish Devil 'Perkele'. Is his name
> > borrowed from the
> > > Baltic?
> >
> > Uotila explains Fin. <perkele> 'devil (a
> > swear-word)' < *perkeleh <
> > Baltic *perk- found in <Perkú:nas> 'thunder god' and
> > its diminutives
> > <Perku:ne:~lis>, <Perke:~lis> (I must admit I've
> > never heard this
> > last variant), positing the semantic development
> > from sacred
> > ('thunder god') to pejorative ('devil') in Finnish.
> >
> > Sergei
>
> *****GK: Good opportunity to ask. Baltic Perkunas is
> usually identified with Slavic Perun and with one of
> the alternative appellatives of the Indic Indra. But
> whence the "k" in Perkunas? ******
> >
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To this equation Perkunas - Perun was putted also Albanian
Perendi 'god', even I have expressed my reservation, because I see
in Albanian word an old adjective formed from PIE *per- `to lead'
and adjective suffix *–ent.
Otherwise, Alb. word for "hell " is "skëterrë" < s- (intensive
prefix) + kë- (prefix, cf. këqyr `to look, to see',
pasqyrë `mirror') and the root "terr" (darkness).
The meaning of underworld in Alb. is preserved only in
construction "kall në dhé" – to put someone under earth, to bury -
from PIE *kel- `to conceal, to cover, to burn', from an o grade form
*kol-. For euphonic and expressiv reason, it's also in use the
construction: E kall të gjallë në dhé `to bury someone alive'. In
some expressions, like: I kall datën/ frikën `to terrify, to scare
someone' it has yet the meaning of hell.
In other cases, verb "kall" preserves meaning of `to burn'. I doubt
that we have an extended form to the verb kalb < *kol- + -bo `to
decay, to rotten' with all derivates: këlbazë `phlegm', qelb `to
stink', qelbës `skunk', probably from a lost future stem (cf. Lat. –
bo).

Konushevci
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