Re: [tied] Poseidon - meaning

Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> In all books I've read, the Mycenian form is allways Po-se-da-o, without
> "W".

You're right, and the same holds true for <e-ne-si-da-o-ne> (dat.) for
*Enosida:(h)o:n (probably a byname of Poseidon). I was citing from
memory and assumed it must have been <-wo-> as there's some
inscriptional evidence for the digamma. I wonder if the fate of medial
*-sw- in Mycenaean Greek is known. If *dn.s-wo:n is ruled out, we can
always fall back on a nasal stem like *dn.so:n, though the attractive
connection with Daeira would probably have to be abandoned.

Piotr