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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:06:26 +0000, CG <sonno3@...>
> wrote:
> On the other hand, if Andoss- were a loan from Celtic, one
> might imagine Aq. -oss = Bq. -otz < Celtic -os. Does a
> Gaulish word *andos exist? Was the intensive prefix and-
> ever nominalized in Celtic (I'm thinking here also of Basque
> (h)andi "big")?
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
To bother Greek-Basque associations again, how would Basque (h)andi
and Spanish 'gigante' (English 'giant' from Gk 'gigantikos'
or 'gigas') relate?
Would it be easy to say that the Greek forms can be attributed to
earth or Gaea? Or the 'giants' being earth-born (from Greek myths,
the fourth of the kind of large creatures, the Hecatonchires
or 'hundred handed', being the first, the Cyclopes or the wheel-eyed
being the second, and the third the Titans) or Gaea-antis.
The Basque (h)andi reminds of the contemporary Arabic word (mo)handis
or 'engineer'. Supervisor or 'foreman' is 'modir'. But so far, quite
long-range.
Loreto