Re: [tied] Bakkhos etymology

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:

> First: Mycean was just a typo, I intended to write Mycenean,
> obviously.
>
> Second: I put an asterisk because the Mycenean name was e-nu-wa-
> ri-jo. After this form is deduced the spell Enuwalios, but as
> Mycenean syllabarium have many possible interpretations for each
> syllabe, I preferred to put the asterisk.

I see. I didn't on first sight recognize 'Enyalios' in 'enuwarijo',
and had no idea what this word was supposed to mean or where Alex
was supposed to have got it.

> To relate Ja:nus and Enyalios is necessary to make both as loans
> from a third language, for example, something like *enwo. After,
> Latin would turn this name into Ja:nus after influence of ja:nua.

I see no necessity to relate 'Janus' and 'Enyalios' though. What
has a Greek god of war have to do with a Roman month besides the
sequence 'ar' in both of their names?

David