Re: Poseidon revisited

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@> wrote:
> > Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> escreveu:
> >> The simplest and most natural explanation, if available at
> >> all, is the safest bet, at least initially. The -da(:)o:n
> >> part recurs in <e-ne-si-da-o-ne>, where the first element
> >> can be securely identified, cf. Gk. <enosis> 'shaking,
> >> earthquake' and <enosikHtHo:n> (another epithet of P.).
> >> [...] As to the origin and interpretation of
> >> *da:(h)o:n, I remain agnostic. There is a similarity of
> >> phonetic treatment, and a similar range of variation, in
> >> <hermao:n> (a variant of <herme:s>), but I'm not sure yet
> >> what to make of it.
> >
> > So, Poseida:hon could be an extended form of *Poseida:s, -

da:has,

> > similar to Herma:has and Bore:as (Borrha:s) ?
>
> Just reviving this old thread .... Does anyone have any further
> thoughts on the final element(s) (-*da:[h]o:n?) in "Poseidon"?

I've

> seen the da- element related to a Doric form of ge "earth", which
> seems plausible, though it's not clear to me how plausible :)

Still,

> I suppose it would be parallel to the <e-ne-si-da-o-ne> alongside
> <enosikHtHo:n> with -kHtHo:n "earth" clearly appearing in the

latter

> .... No attested forms like **Poseikhthon? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Carl

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I am loosing a week or two writing about oldest oracle of antiquity
Do:do:ne/Do:do:na (Latin variant), where was worshiped Di:one, earth
goddess, besides Pelasgian Zeus. It is interesting that this region
was later called Epirus from Doric dialect Apeiros `earth,
mainland', developed through PAlb sound law: due to i-Umlaut we have
from Apeiros > Epirus. So, except –do:ne in Do:do:ne, we have earth
goddess Dio:ne, probably PAlb Zana and Dacian Zina, that could also
could be from Latin Diana.

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