Res: [tied] Re: Ethymology of Hellene

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 50626
Date: 2007-11-28

Hellens' eponym is Helle:n. Would be it linked to Helle: (cf. Hellespontos) ?
Sedla:n- < *Sedla:-
Hellas (-ad-) < *Sedla(:)-d-
Maybe Helle:n < *Sedla-wen- ?

Maybe Hellas meant *SedlaH "the settlement", or "the colony", or something like that...

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De: stlatos <stlatos@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 28 de Novembro de 2007 0:36:06
Assunto: [tied] Re: Ethymology of Hellene

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "homermakedonski"
<homermakedonski@ ...> wrote:

> A more scientific
> approach considers this an aitiological myth
> <http://www.biologyd aily.com/ biology/Aitiolog y> , placing the origin of
> the name in Epirus <http://www.biologyd aily.com/ biology/Epirus> , the
> land of the Dorians <http://www.biologyd aily.com/ biology/Dorians> ,
> where people were called Selloi or Helloi. The etymology of the term is
> *sedlenes, meaning "settlers"

This is probably basically correct, though I'd say it was a
derivation from noun *sed(t)lo+ 'seat' >> verb *sedlax+ 'settle' >>
noun *sedlaxno+s 'settler' which was put into the C-stems later.



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