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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> What is the IE root for Pallas? Is it related to *pel- (vel sim)
"gray"? Or is the statement that Athena had gray eyes etiological?
>
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According to Puhvel, Pallas simply means "maid". Liddell and Scott
write cf. 'pallax' "youth".
I can't find an authoritative statement but I assume the I.E. root
is Mallory and Adams' WC *pelh- "bear young" (E. "foal").
Dan Milton