Re: [tied] Re: belbus, bellua, bestia

At 4:15:05 PM on Tuesday, January 24, 2006, whitedawn wrote:

>> Is there any possible relation between Latin words belbus
>> "hyena" bellua "monster, beast" bestia "beast"?

> I think, there is a close relation among those words. All
> them stemmed from the name of the ancient god Bel. In case
> of "belbus" the syllable "bel" is duplicated as in the
> English word "wolf" (bel-belus, Vulfila, Belbelana -
> Babylon).

There is a great deal of nonsense here. For example,
<Vulfila> ~ <Wulfila> is not <Vul-fila>, as you seem to
think, but <Vulf-ila>: <-ila> is a diminutive suffix.

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Brian