Re[2]: [tied] Truth, Hittite

At 2:10:01 PM on Tuesday, November 20, 2007, Rick
McCallister wrote:

> --- Francisco Antonio Doria <doriagen@...> wrote:

>> Is there a word that would reasonably, safely be
>> translated as truth, in Hittite? I know that there is no
>> indo-european word for the concept. I'm checking on the
>> possible origins of Gk alétheia - Apasa and Millawanda
>> were peripheral to the Hittite empire, and were the
>> places where Philosophy begins.

> Interesting word for truth, see a "not" + lethe "forget" +
> ia which seems to function as a marker for abstract
> qualities and collectivitites but someone else will have
> to take it back to IE for you

Watkins derives <Lethe> from *leh2dH- 'to be hidden'; the
prefix is of course from *n.-.

Brian