Re: Mitanni and Matsya

On 2008-04-04 23:54, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> PIE *da:nu-, 'river, has a final -*n-.

No, it has a final *-u. The second element of Poseidon's name is -dao:n,
a nasal stem (which *dah2-nu- is not). I don't think it has anything to
do with rivers.

> PIE **da:-, 'earth', if it exists, does not.

The final *-o:n in <Potei-dao:n> is probably something trivial like the
individualising (and anthroponymic) nasal suffix of <Plato:n> etc., and
tells us practically nothing about the root it got attached to.

Piotr