Re: [tied] Etymology of Greek God Dionysus

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45392
Date: 2006-07-17

Mycenean form is di-wo-nu-so-

There is variants Dionnys, Dio:nys, etc

I prefer see it as *Diwo-su:nus "Son of Dyeus" > *Diwounus > assimilated > Diwo:nys, Diwonys, Diwonnys

Joao SL

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> escreveu:
On 2006-07-17 00:46, amshuman_k wrote:

> Hi list,
> I recognize the "Dio" portion of the word Dionysus. Is the second
> part "nysus" related to "nysa"? Does "nysa" have congates in other IE
> branches? Does it go back to PIE?

<Nû:sa> was the name of several hills sacred to <Dió(:)nu:sos> (and of
their mythical prototype), so the god's name can be interpreted as
*diwjos nu:sos 'divine N.' or *diwos nu:sos 'Zeus's N.', with the
<nu:sos> part presumably related to the toponym, but I haven't seen a
convincing explanation of either, let alone a solid IE etymology.

Piotr


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