Re: [tied] Re: Venus [was: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right &

Chinese uses /tian/ as both "sky" and "day".

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Andrei

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> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Venus [was: Why borrow 'seven'? (was: IE right

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> Most languages (eg: Sumerian /ud/, Chinese /ri/) use "sun" to mean

"day"

> as well, and so it's surely unnatural to translate /tin/ as "sky", a
> translation whose only basis appears to be blinded by an idle

connection

> with IE *deino-. The only thing going for /tin/="sun" is the fact that
> Etruscan Tin (aka Tinia) was considered in those times the religious
> equivalent of Roman Jupiter.
>
> However, the latter fact does not guarantee that /tin/ means "sky"

just

> because Jupiter does and who ever heard of a language that uses the
> same word for "sky" as they do for "day"? Find one.