From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56561
Date: 2008-04-03
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From: Patrick Ryan
> theonyms appearing in Mittani treatises, a good starting point could be
> Paul
> Thieme's old article at
> http://tinyurl.com/2qktd5
>
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> Grazie Francesco.
>
> u'-ru-wa-na-ash-shi-il [?uruwana]
> and
> a-ru-na-shi-il [aruna]
> are supposed to be read Varuna.
>
> Arnaud
>
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Do you have another better origin for Varuna to propose, Arnaud?
Patrick
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I have stated I believe Hurri [&ari] is PIE.
If we look at real forms attested in Hurri
?uruwana and aruna
I would try to make sense out of this
with a mobile-stress root
Stressed form :
?OruwAna (stress on O and secondary on A)
Unstressed :
?°ru-na- (stress on suffix)
Maybe Hoffman's suffix might help
the one in charge H3_n of *?oru-
hence ?oru-H3an-
?oru might be "height" ?
Maybe "sky-carer" makes sense.
I consider Varuna can't be derived
from either Ouranos nor ?uruwana.
Phonetics are impossible.
But semantics is possible.
Arnaud
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