Re: Greek naos "temple": IE?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

> --- 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
> *********
> 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.

Fit what?
Both Skt. 'naur' and Latin 'navis' has cognates in Germanic. No loan
here.


Torsten