Re: Tor/Tur/(e)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bagoven20" <bagoven20@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Marco Moretti"
> <marcomoretti69@...> wrote:
> > > You see, the Pleiades which were seven daughters of Atlas are
> > > called 'Thuraya' in Arabic.
> >
> > Impossible. /Thor/ < /*Thunaraz/.
>
> Therefore it is not within Germanic or IE. Since this *Thunaraz is
> either Proto-Germanic or Proto-IE. And it has *. The asterisk seem
> to be more related to 'Thor'. Stellar?

Actually I got puzzled why the Iberian languages does not seemingly
follow (when they should be) the Latin for
thunder "tonare" , "tonitrus". Portuguese has "trovao" and
Spanish "trueno". French and German (and of course English) does
follow Latin.

As for the greatest tur- word (personally) I have seen, that would be
Latin "turris", 'tower'. Spanish "torre".
And yes of course debatably connectible to Arabic "At-tur", 'mount'
(Mt. Sinai).

I hate to say that there are strong probabilities that these are not
chance resemblances.

Loreto