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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 12:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Proto-Albanian
>
>
>
> > Here it ought to see if the Name of Poseidon is to explain trough
> > Danube, if there is a compound Posei+don.
>
> There are many versions of the name in ancient Greek. The first
element usually appears as <potei->, <poti(:)-> or <posei->, and the
second is <-da(:)o:n> or <de(:)o:n> (or _contracted_ <-do:n> or <-
da:n>) for earlier <-da:wo:n> (the most archaic form). You cannot
compare it directly to *dah2nu- (even if an indirect "watery"
connection is not impossible) or to any historically known name of
the Danube.
>
> Piotr
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Keightley (1857): "The simple Doric form of his name, 'Potidas'
shows its true origin to be from the root POW [pi omicron omega],
and that it is of the same family with 'potos', 'pontos',
and 'potamos', all relating to water and fludity."
11th Britannica (1910): "The connection of his name
with 'posis', 'pontos', 'potamos' is generally accepted."
However, Puhvel (1987): Poseidon ... is the invocational form
of 'husband of Da' (as in *Da-mater > Demeter, frozen vocative
case '*posei' = Sanskrit 'pate'). In Arcadian myth he figures as
the consort of Demeter..."
You takes your choice. The nice thing is you don't have to pays
your money.
Dan