Re: 'dyeus'

W dniu 2010-08-30 21:13, dgkilday57 pisze:

> There is no good reason why the principal god of the Jovian religion
> should have had a reconstructible consort. It is very difficult to
> connect <Ju:no:> with <Ju:piter> etymologically and I prefer to connect
> with <ju:ni:x> 'heifer', <ju:nior> 'younger', <juvencus> 'young bull',
> <juvenis> 'young man', etc. I do not regard Juno as a goddess of youth
> as such, but of fecundity, and her epithet <Lu:cina> refers to leading
> babies, calves, etc. into the light. She appears to have been originally
> a Q-Italic goddess (not mentioned in the Iguvine Tables, but worshipped
> at Falerii, Lanuvium, and other "Latin" towns), borrowed by the
> Etruscans of Veii and Caere as Uni. Her association with Jupiter does
> not appear explicitly before the lectisternium of 217 BCE, and should be
> regarded as an artefact of Hellenization, identifying her with Hera, not
> an ancient feature.

In her 2004 article on IE nasal stems, Birgit Olsen discusses the
etymology of <Iu:no:> in a footnote, suggesting, as one of the
possibilities (beside the <iuvenis> connection), a "Hoffmannian" preform
like *djú-h3(o)n- 'having heavenly authority' > pre-Latin
*juwo:/*ju:nis, regularised into Lat. iu:no:/iu:no:nis. While the
proposed normalisation may look somewhat acrobatic, at least she points
out that the expected weak stem *iu:n- is attested as the base of
<iu:nius> 'June'. Of course *h2ju-h3(o)n- 'young' could have produced
identical derivatives, which Olsen duly admits.

Piotr