From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60202
Date: 2008-09-21
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 5:55 PM
Subject: [tied] *ku(m)p- (/*kunkW-?)
The Ethnicity of the Sea Peoples, p. 96
'There is little information about the Philistien language - we only
know that the cities of their pentapolis were headed by a local
magistrate called seren and that ko:ba was their word for helmet,
which is usually compared to Hittite kupah_i for the same meaning - ...'
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It remains to be proved how Egyptian *pursac^/*pulsac^ can be identified
with philist-.
What is the etymology of Pelops ?
I've been wondering if *iqawas^a could not be the old name of Euboia,
admitting that the name originally was *i-k?awas^a
Hence the Egyptian with q standing for a glottalized k?
But remotivated by the Greeks as standing for *eu-gwow-ya
with k? > g.
I agree that this is highly speculative.
Arnaud
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