From: C. Darwin Goranson
Message: 45732
Date: 2006-08-15
>https://ep.eur.nl/bitstream/1765/7686/1/Woudhuizen+bw.pdf
> Integral text in
> (...)"prytanos",
> Now, as the Pelasgians in
> mainland Greece appear to be ancestral to their kinsmen in
> the north-Aegean region (and western Anatolia), it seems
> advisable to have a look at them first. An interesting tradition
> in this respect is formed by the story of the Pelasgian
> king of Argos,416 Akrisios, son of Abas and brother of
> Proitos, who in fear of his grandson Perseus flees from his
> hometown to Larisa in Thessaly under the rule of the likewise
> Pelasgian king Teutamias.417 Here we encounter at
> least one clearly Indo-European name, Teutamias, which is
> based on the PIE stem *teuta:- "society, folk, people".418
> The same root is also attested for the name of the leader of
> the Thessalian Pelasgians in their journey to Crete, Teutamos,
> referred to above,419 and that of the grandfather of
> the Pelasgian leaders in the Trojan war, Teutamids,
> probably a patronymic.420 It is particularly relevant to our
> purposes to note that this root occurs in the New Phrygian
> form teutous and in the Thracian man's name (= MN)
> Tautomedes, etc.421 Furthermore, Abas is the heros eponym
> of the Abantes, a Thracian tribe.422 Finally, Akrisios
> and Proitos have closely related Phrygian counterparts in
> the divine name Akrisias423 and the root of the magistracy
> proitavos,424 respectively. The impression we gain from
> these examples, is that Pelasgian, insofar as onomastics is
> significant in this respect, may well be an Indo-European
> language of Thraco-Phrygian type. Further instances can
> be adduced to emphasize this point, like Adrastos,425 corresponding
> to the Phrygian MN Adrastos,426 and Arkas,427
> related to the root of the Phrygian patronymic Arkiaevas.
> 428
> The situation is different with the Pelasgians in western
> Anatolia. Thus, it is reported by Strabo that at the time
> Gamkrelidze & Ivanov 1995: 33; 652; 835; pace Beekes 1998.
> 419 See note 404 above.
> 420 Homeros, Iliad II, 840-3. Note that the Late Bronze Age date
> of this onomastic element is emphasized by its presence in Linear
> B te-u-ta-ra-ko-ro, see Chantraine 1958: 127.
> 421 Haas 1966: 95; Detschew 1976, s.v.
> 422 Homeros, Iliad II, 536-45; Strabo, Geography X, 1, 3; cf.
> Woudhuizen 1989: 196.
> 423 Diakonoff & Neroznak 1985: 91; based on the PIE root *akr-
> "high", see Lochner-Hüttenbach 1960: 160-1 and cf. Sakellariou
> 1980: 207-10, or *ak´er-, see Haas 1966: 145, 213 and cf. Gamkrelidze
> & Ivanov 1995: 96.
> 424 Brixhe & Lejeune 1984: M-01b; Woudhuizen 1993b; based on
> the PIE roots *pro "before" and *ei- "to go" (cf. Sakellariou 1980:
> 207-10). For other instances of magistracies used as personal names,
> cf. Hittite Labarnas < labarna- "king", Lydian Kandaules <
> Luwian ® antawat- "king", Etruscan Porsenna < purne
> Etruscan Camitlna < camthi (title), Etruscan Macstrna < LatinHowever, does this explain sound-changes such as shifting between
> magister "magistrate", Latin Lucius < Etruscan lucumo "king",
> Phoenician Malchus < mlk- "king", and, from Homeros, Palmus <
> Lydian pal1ml1u- "kingship" and Prutanis < prutanos, again.