Re: [tied] IE etymology for Achaia?

On 2007-01-22 16:44, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:

> Leaving aside the issue of whether Ahhi(y)awa is a related word, has
> any fairly plausible PIE etymology for the Greek name "Achaia" been
> proposed?

I don't know of any. <akHaiós> certainly reflects older *akHaiwó- (Lat.
Achi:vi:), and Hitt. ahhiya:, ahhiyawa:, as well as AEgyt. aqaiwas^a (or
whatever vocalisation one prefers), are almost generally believed to be
foreign renderings of the Greek ethnonym.

Piotr