Re: Poseidon revisited

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

> 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? :)

Other words from PIE show both *-nu- and *-uw- in different
languages and forms in the same language. That implies to me:

daxnus.....daxnu+as
daxnus.....daxnwas
daxnus.....daxwwas
daxnus.....daxuwas

This would happen well before the creation of syllabic consonants.
Later words would remove this alternation by analogy.

In Greek xuw>xaw; in Indo-Iranian uxw>axw. Therefore this form would
be a genitive plural, "Lord of the Rivers/Waters". Probably there was
also a word *Daxuwo:s > *Daxawoi > Danaoi by analogy.