Sons of Zeus and Europa were Minos and Rhadmanthus. Can Minos be
misspeling of Minas and Rhadmanthus be misspeling of Radmantas?
From Kazimieras Kuzavinis and Bronys Savukynas book " Lietuviø vardø
kilmës þodynas" (Dictionary of Lithuanian names and their origins):
"Minas, Minius - shortened from Minbutas, Minkantas, Minvainas and
others,...
Radmantas - rad- (: Lithuanian RAD-O, RAS-TI, meaning FOUND, TO
FIND) + mant- (: Lithuanian MANT-US, meaning CLEVER; MANT-A, meaning
RICHIES)"
Herodotus wrote about river Auras in Thracia: "on the other from the
Agathyrsians the Maris river flows and is mixed with the Ister and
from Haemos' peaks three other large ones flow to the north wind and
pour out into it, the Atlas, the Auras and the Tibisis, while
through Thrace and the Crobuzian Thracians flow the Athrys, the Noes
and the Aptanes and they discharge into the Ister, from the
Paeonians and a mountain, Rhodope, the Scios river splits the Haemos
in its middle and discharges into it, from the Illyrians flows to
the north wind the Angros river and pours into the Triballician
plain and into the river Brongos and the Brongos into the Ister
(thus the Ister receives both that are large) and from the country
further inland of the Ombricians the Carpis river and another, the
Alpis, even those, to the North wind flow and discharge into it."
So, Latin word AURUM + Dacian word APA, meaning RIVER, > Aurapa >
misspeling Europa?
--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:
> It seems a folk-etymology erected to provide a link between
Europa, the continent and Europa, the woman carried by bull-shaped
Zeus. Euryops "large-face" would be a good epithet for a cow.
>
> I suspect it is pre-Greek and cognate of Eurybia, a sea-goddess.
>
> Joao SL
>
> Lisa <eris@...> escreveu:
> I have always assumed it was from Greek 'euru-'/'eu' "broad"/"wide"
> (from *su, "good") and 'ops' "face"/"eyes" (from *oq/*oqw/*okw, "to
> see"). ?
>
> - Lisa
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:
> > Is the assumption that the name Europa came from
> > Semitic *Garibu (3Ereb, gharib)valid?
> > In this case, from what specific Semitic language did
> > this word go to Greece?
> >
> > Joao SL
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