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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:
> All these forms are mentioned at "Dicionario
> Mitico-Etimologico da Mitologia Grega" from a deceased
> Brazilian mythologist, Junito Brandao, I don´t know
> his source. The forms are
> Dionysos (regular)
> Dio:nysos (Homeros)
> Dionnysos (Thessalian)
> Zonnysos, Deunysos, Dienysos (Lesbian)
Thanks Joao.
Well I'm no expert in Greek, but even so it seems fairly
obvious that these all ascend to 'dionnysos', since such
changes as VCC > V:C, di > dz, and io > ie are so natural.
I don't know if 'io' could as readily become 'eu' as the
other way around, but it seems that 'd' would more readily
become 'dz' before the closer sound of 'i'.
Now where you go from 'dionnysos', I have no idea.
I wonder how it is that the one dialect of Lesbian alone
contains not only three different forms, but morever the
three forms from the lot most different from one another?
David