Re: Mitanni and Matsya

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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
>

I've seen "Lord of the House" in popular sources but
these are popular books and articles not written by
linguists --something like *poti-damos (it's been a
while)




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