Re: Hekto:r means...?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado <dicoceltique@...>
wrote:

>
> Hello tgpedersen
> For you , does any chance to connect Greek Anax = King with Celtic

Anag-/Anak-s/Anax = to protect

> cf Scot Anacail = to defend and Irish Anacol = Protection
> Sanskrit Anugrah = to help/protect
>
> Cf personal celtic nam eor God = Anextlo-maros = the great
> protector

--- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

> I'd say that o>a after PIE x (H2) but it was
> usually
> restored later.
> In Italic I think there was also a change of final
> o>a after any velar (mostly k and L) among other
> such
> changes:

Indo-Iranian also shows this final o>a (though there isn't much ev.
for this due to later changes) and Greek could easily have gone
through the same but had even more analogical restoration of o than Latin.

Words for 'prince > (various nobles)' can come from simple 'boy' or
'son' so I'd say ánax < * mYenkó+ / mYaNkó+ 'little' with masculine *
mYenkó+s / mYaNkó+s 'boy'. This requires met. and dissim. (m-n >
w-n). The metathesis also occurs in * manká: / mankáina > * maná:k /
mané:nak mix> mana:k / mana:nák 'a little, slightly' in Sanskrit.

mYaNkós
mYaNkás
mYáNaks met.
mYáNakts
etc.
mánakts
wánakts dis.
wánaks