Re: Ares, sugestions

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao Simoes Lopes Filho"

> And another idea, Are:s < *N.re:s < *Hner- or some non-Greek NR-
> word? cf. Indra, Inarash, Ninurta, Onuris. Just a guess, I know it's
> not very plausible.

Hmm. It would have to be an s-stem, something like
*xnéros 'manliness', with a genitive form *xnré:s 'of manliness'

> 'manly one'. As far as I know, that would also give Greek Are:s.

- Rob