On 05-03-04 14:15, tgpedersen wrote:
> which makes one suspect it's a loanword (some religious term) in IE.
You could add the Akkadian theonym Ea (< *h.ayy- 'living'). The Etruscan
comparanda are not particularly impressive, but the formal and semantic
match betweem PIE *h2jw- and Semitic *h.yw- is striking indeed and may
point to ancient borrowing (or to Nostratic inheritance, _if_ there are
possible matches in other families).
Piotr