Re[2]: [tied] Re: Tor/Tur/(e)

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 29984
Date: 2004-01-25

At 10:38:29 PM on Saturday, January 24, 2004, Miguel
Carrasquer wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:56:05 +0000, Glen Gordon
> <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>>Miguel:

>>>Atlas is "the one who endures" (he carries the world on
>>>his shoulders), so the a- is not privative *n.-

>>Are you sure?

> Not 100%. Pokorny lists Atlas under *tel&- without
> comment, and I have never really looked at Greek
> mythological names.

Watkins says 'perhaps (but unlikely)' from zero-grade *tl&-.

Brian