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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> Hermeas has the same ending as Boreas.
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> JS Lopes
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1. I'm not sure that it was Hermeas It wasn't Herma:wo- or something like this?
2. Regarding Boreas
Beekes:
"Origin (see intro): IEX [477] *gW(o)rH- `mountain'
[...] -> 'wind from the mountains' "
===> I doubt a lot about this derivation
Regarding the suffix:
" The formation, however, is unclear; s. Pedersen Cinq. décl. lat. 66, Schwyzer 461. (On wind names in -ίας Chantr. Form. 95.). Is it an IE formation?- "
Boreas seems to be a 'Balkanic' loan in Greek from a Languages where bH > b ; o > a;
This sound for me like the Proto-Albanian....
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so maybe also n. > a and a: > o to be sourced from:
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*h2p-h3n.h2-r-e-w-os > ba:rewas > boreas > Grk. boreas
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where:
h2ep- 'water' [noun]
-h3onh2- Hoffman suffix meaning 'charged, burden, loaded' [noun]
-ro- -> '[adj.] describing something <burden by waters/(snows)>'
-w- -> 'possesing something <burden by waters/(snows)>' [noun]
-es/os -> [noun] 'the agent that generated a phenomenon
'possesing something <burden by waters/(snows)>'
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If so Hermeas is also a loaned from *Ser-m-e-w-os with the meaning proposed yesterday
Marius