[tied] Re: Greek naos "temple": IE?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
> > On 4/28/05, Daniel J. Milton <dmilt1896@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Is there any IE etymology for Greek naos "temple" (Attic neo:s,
> > > Aeolian naus) < *naswos ?
> > > >
> > > > Joao SL
> > > ********
> > > According to Buck's "Synonyms", *naswos "dwelling (of a
> deity)"
> > > <naio "dwell". The latter appears from L&S to have been a
> poetic
> > > word used instead of the more ordinary 'oikeo'. I can't help
> with its
> > > etymology.
> > > Dan Milton
> > ************
> > Also in Albanian is present <ne-jë> 'indwelling, stand' (*ai > Alb.
> > /e/) with secondary form <nde•një> 'id.'.
> >
>
> Any connection with 'nave' of a church (supposedly
> from 'navis' "ship", but cf. as G&I point out, the connection
> between the "ship" word and Skt. 'naur' "corpse" etc)? Danish
> churches traditionally have a model of a ship suspended from a vault.
>
>
> Torsten

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It's not immediately obvious why the central part of a church
suggests a ship (American Heritage Dict. says "probably from the
shape"), but it seems a lot longer stretch to think that medieval
Western European architects would pick up a Greek word that doesn't
particularly fit anway.
Dan