Re: [tied] Themis

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> The odd inflection (gen. tHémistos, acc. tHémista, nom.pl.

tHémistes,

> acc.pl. tHémistas) points to an consonantal stem in *-st-. I don't

know

> what to make of it.

A suggestion: hypostasis of /thémi 'sti/ 'it is law' => dat. 'by law',
generating a stem thémist- 'law'.

Jens