Re: Formation or etymology of Aineias/Aeneas?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Edlund Anderson" <cea@...> wrote:

>
> Can anyone comment of the underlying forms for the Greek name

Î`ἰνείας (Aineias)? What

> little I've discovered suggests it's derived from αίνος (ainos)

"praise", perhaps with the sense

> "praise-worthy", but I don't fully understand how it's put together.

I am given to understand

> that there is also an o-stem form Î`ἲνειος (Aineios) likewise

supposedly from αίνος (ainos),

> in which case perhaps we're seeing the IE -jo- suffix for forming

genitival adjectives (e.g.

> Latin -ius)? Though even then I don't understand the a-stem

version. (Possibly due to my

> limited knowledge of Greek!).
>
> Cheers,
> Carl

Possibly related to Alina, one of the enemies of King Sudas described
in the Rig Veda.

"The ten tribes allied against king Sudas (who belonged to the Trtsu
branch of the Paurava tribe) have been enumerated in the Vedic
references to the actual battle, and a number of them are unmistakably
Iranian: Paktha (Pashtu), BhalAna (Bolan/Baluch), Parshu (Persian),
PRthu (Parthian), the others being less recognizable: VishANin, AlIna,
Shiva,"

http://voi.org/books/ait/ch46.htm

[Which, though it doesn't say so, is from Koenraad Elst, Update on
the Aryan Invasion Debate. -BMS]

M. Kelkar