Re: *ku(m)p- (/*kunkW-?)

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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

We can always trot out the old saw about Philistines and Pelasgians

and, stretching that saw till it sings, Pelops could be our "Pel(asgi)-face"

who knows, maybe he had a mud like Arafat that only a mother could love