On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:52:24 -0300 (ART), "Joao S. Lopes"
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josimo70@...> wrote:
>But I think none of the femine -o: anthroponyms have IE satisfatory etymologies.
>Perhaps Le:to: can be related to *la:- "to cover, to hide"
>(cf. *la:tr- > Sansk. Ra:tri: "The Night Goddess".
>The other ones are still mysterious.
Names usually are.
Common nouns like pheido:, peitho: and khreo: have solid IE
root etymologies, although I don't think there are any
parallel oy-stems outside Greek for these roots. Unless
peitho: (oy-stem) and fide:s (ey-stem?) can be equated
somehow.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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