Re: [tied] Auras

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

> I mean Atlas is known as Alutas and it is today Olt (in Rom). Homer

says

> Atlas but we do know about another name as being Alutas, thus one of
> these two words is the methathetic one.
> The same about "Ordessos" which is "Argesh". Intersting in my

opinion,

> the phonetic aspects of the rivers as presented by Herodot present

kind

> of Albanoid sound changes: Arges > Ordes; Alutas > Atlas, etc. I

wonder

> how much such aspects can be extracted from such kind of

comparations.

Can it be that diminutive suffix is in word Alutas? Then Alius, Alys,
Alus > Alutis > Alutas. Compare with Kæstas > Kæstutis (duke of GDL),
Kailas > Kailutis, Jaunius > Jaunutis, ...

To what Albanian word name Ordes is related?


Regards, Aigius