An idea occurred to me: a link between Poseida:hon and
Ahi Budhnya (inverted, Budhnya Ahi). The source would
be another IE language.
So, following this way:
*Pot-/Pos- < *bHudH(yo-)
*id-a:hon < *eg^Hi (this is more rough)
Conclusion:
Trying to describe this hypothetical entity, he would
be a kind of dragon or dragon-god (H1eg^Hi-,
H2egWHi-), underground-dwelling (*bHudH-, *ni-), dark
(dHubH-), its power or bulk provoking earthquakes (cf.
Loki, Typhon, Poseidon), venomous or fire-breathed.
Joao SL
--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...>
escreveu:
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C. Darwin Goranson wrote:
> Could the "-don" ending be a relic of the
Proto-Indo-European word for river?
The most archaic versions of the name look like
Po-se-da-wo-ne (Myc.),
Poseida:o:n, Poteidawo:n, or Poti:dao:n. If the name
is IE at all, the
first element could be identify as *poti- 'master,
lord', though it's
position in the compound is strange (for 'lord of X'
we would expect
*X-potis). It's possible, however, that the name is a
frozen vocative
phrase like Lat. Iuppiter/Iu:piter (*djéu p&2ter). If
so, the <potei- ~
posei-> part may be the archaic vocative of <posis>.
What remains is
*da(:)wo:n, which seems to be the actual original
name.
Now, an idea has just occurred to me. One of
Persephone's epithets is
Daeira, which is supposed to mean 'the knowing one'
and to be connected
with <didasko:>, based on *dn.s-, the nil grade of
*dens- 'learn,
teach'. I wonder if the two names are not related as
masculine
*dn.s-wo:n vs. feminine *dn.s-wer-ih2, both meaning
something like 'full
of counsel'.
Any thoughts?
Piotr
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