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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> BTW, the Greek "androphos". Is the slavic "trupU" somehow related here
> too? If yes, is there a verb in slavic too, derived from "trupU"?
Do you mean <antHro:pos>, or <ane:r>/<andros>? Well, whichever it is,
neither of them is related to <trupU>, which, as far as I know,
originally meant 'block of wood' (hence one as dead as a ...). <ane:r>
is from PIE *h2ner- 'man' (the /d/ in <andr-> is epenthetic, as in
English <thunder> from <thunr->). <antHro:pos> has no single accepted
etymology. The ancient Greeks already "explained" it in a number of
pre-scientific ways, and we're hardly any wiser today.
Piotr