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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 30018
Date: 2004-01-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> I think ATLAS (ATLANT-) is a pre-Greek name, whose Greek analysis
is clearly a folk-etymology. Perhaps the same root of name ATALANTA.
The same can be true for almost all Titans. Suffix -AS (-ANT-) is
very common in Giants' and Titans' names: Mimas, Gigas, Gyas,
Phorbas, Pallas.
>

And in Krahe's Old European river names.

Torsten