Re: [tied] Hekto:r means...?

On 2007-04-03 06:25, stevelong333 wrote:

> (There's another meaning given for <echo^> that I think has the
> same morphology and maybe could be a less militant and more
> reverent meaning for Hekto^r -- to carry, to bring,... used in
> "brought as an offering." ...)

That's an extremely rare dialectal word reflecting PIE *weg^H-, but
Hector's name can't derive from it. It has no digamma anywhere,
including Mycenaean.

Piotr