Re: [tied] Themis

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

>
> On 2006-07-26 13:16, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:
>
> > A suggestion: hypostasis of /thémi 'sti/ 'it is law' => dat. 'by

law',

> > generating a stem thémist- 'law'.
>
> Ingenious. That would make the "easy" -i-stem older than

the "difficult"

> consonantal variant, contrary to what's usually suggested. <tHemis
> esti(n)> is a fixed phrase if there ever was one in Ancient Greek.

Thank you. I think now I should perhaps correct this to thémis esti > *
[thémisti] by haplology ("ecthlipsis" in Melchert's terminology),
whence the reanalysis as a dative of a noun stem /thémist-/.

Jens