From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61645
Date: 2008-11-15
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From: Joao S. Lopes
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 12:50 AM
Subject: Res: Res: [tied] The -SG- in Greek (PELASGOS)
Pallas (-nt-) was the name of a Titan and a goatskin Giant. It doesn't seem
that both were "young boys". In some traditions, Pallas was the father of
Eos, Selene and Athena, and tried to violate his daughter (cf. Indian myth
of Samdhya or Rohini violated by her father Prajapati; Orion and Artemis).
Pallas was also the father of 50 Pallantides, defeated by Theseus.
I prefer substratal origin for this word, that would come from the same
language that generated Atlas, Bias, Idas, Gyas, Gigas, Byzas, Tho:as,
Thaumas, Mimas. This substratum can be IE, but it'd not Proto-Greek
(guessing: Gigant- < *dHg^Hm-g^nh2tos?; Idant- < *h1edont-?).
JS Lopes
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What is the reason atlas and gigant are not just Greek ?
Morpheme a + tlH2 > atla-s
Gen(H1) > reduplicated gigant
A.