Re: Celtic Tanarus and Gmc Thunaraz

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

> Piotr, the name of the Celtic God Tanarus is put in link with the Luwian Storm-God/Thunder-God Tarh_unt- / Hittite Tarh_un.
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> The name of the Anatolian God is linked to Hittite tarh_ 'to conquer, to defeat, to overpower, to cross'
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> As I know, in Hittite, the h1 is vanished and h3 is preserved (sometimes?) only in the initial position of the words.
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> So the single choice remains h2 ...
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> In this case the derivation should be traced to terh2- 'to cross-over, to overcome' (and not to terh1-)

Yes, it is another possibility, though not without its own problems. The Anatolian theonym is actually *tarhw-ant- < *tr.h2w-(e)nt- 'overpowering, conquering' (rather than 'crossing the sky'), cf. Ved. tú:rva(n)t- (of Indra, Agni and Mitra). These epithets cannot be directly compared with *toranV- or *taranV-.

Piotr