Re: A Semitic etymology for Odisseus?

From: piervantrink
Message: 69306
Date: 2012-04-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "The Egyptian Chronicles" <the_egyptian_chronicles@...> wrote:
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> piervantrink <piervantrink@...> wrote : "Thank for your answers, the Semitic root I speculate it bein connected with odysseus/oulixes/olysseus is a biradical root (2 consonants) consisiting of an alveolar lateral affricative [tl] then a voiced or emphatic alveolar central affricative [ts]"
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> Ishinan:
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> Hi,
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> Arabic and Ugaritic are known to have the most complete inventory of Semitic consonants. Traditionally these two Semitic languages include "emphatic" consonants such as /t?, d?, s?, ð?/ (?,? ?,? ?,? ?) or Ta', Dad, Sad, Za'. Unfortunately, 'tl' (?) and 'ts' are not Semitic. The latter 'ts' is more peculiar to a modern Ashkenazim rendition of the letter Sad, which BTW is
> non-existent in Biblical Hebrew.
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> Further, I am afraid nothing of what you are proposing can lead you to relate them to your topic. However, if you are interested in a possible relationship between ancient Greek mythology and Semitic, I would suggest to look into 'Europa'.
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> Best regards,
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> Ishinan
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Thanks for your enlightening answer however there did exist [tl] and [ts] in the proto Semitic language according to the article below



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto_semitic#Inventory