Re: [tied] Khaos and Eros

Pierre Chantraine's Morphologie historique du grec points the same view for Eros.

So, Khaos could be < *g^Hh1yos- ? *g^Hh1-s-os ?

I'm trying to find a conexion between two names due their relation in Theogony.

The primordial tetrad was Khaos (the abyss, the gap, cf. Ginnungagap), Gaia (the Earth), Tartaros (the Underworld, I couldn find an IE etymology, perhaps some Pre-Greek like *tarutaru) and Ero:s (seems to me like Ymir and Purusha, the Giant Hermaphrodit).

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> escreveu:

On 2006-07-13 05:20, Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> Khaos < *g^Hawos? *g^Hayos? *g^HNwos?

The PIE 'yawn' verb had a "long diphthong" root, *g^He:(i)-/* g^Hi:- in
Brugmannian terms. Depending on how one analyses such roots in laryngeal
terms, the reconstruction is either *g^Heh1i- or *g^Heih1- (I favour the
latter, but the former is regarded as more orthodox nowadays). Gk.
kHasko:, however, is possibly an unrelated lookalike (from something
onomatopoeic like *gHa(:)n-).

> Ero:s < *erawot- ? *erasot-

The root is *h1erh2- (Gk. eramai 'desire, love', adj. eratós 'desired,
loved). The -s- stem nouns in Gk. must originally have been neut. *eras,
anim. *ero:s (*h1érh2-e/os- ), as demonstrated by further derivatives
like <erannós> 'lovely' from *eras-no-. The t-stem (ero:t-) is either a
Greek innovation (more likely) or a trace of PIE *-s-/*-t- alternation
in s-stems.

Piotr

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