Re: ZEPHYR <===> DUBUWR <====> *?ip`u

From: Tavi
Message: 69460
Date: 2012-04-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "The Egyptian Chronicles"
<the_egyptian_chronicles@...> wrote:
>
> Octavià Alexandre wrote: Greek zéphuros 'west wind' and
zóphos 'darkness' represent a root *dJepH- ~ *dJopH- which can be
readily linked to Altaic *dZipHu 'evening, darkness' (a "satem" form in
his full right).
>
> ISHINAN's response: The Greek "Zephyr" has a correspondent in Arabic,
Dubuwr/Dabuwr root of "dbr". In Classical Arabic and according to
Arabian mythology; Dubuwr/Dabuwr was the violent westerly wind that
destroyed the ancient Arabian tribe of `Ad (Thamuwd) (referred to as
"Tamudaei" in the writings of Aristo of Chios, Ptolemy, and Pliny and
Claudius Ptolemy's Geographos who mentions of the inhabitants of 'Ad's
capital, Ubar).
>
> MEANINGS:
>
> Dabuwr/Dubuwr: A violent wind blowing from the west.
> dbr: an evil omen referring to gloom in connection to the west wind,
also referring to
> a tract of the western sky at sunset. For expanded definitions click
below:
>
> http://www.theegyptianchronicles.com/LINKS/DBR.html
>
Very interesting. Given the absence of Semitic cognates, we must assume
this is a loanword from some language spoken in the SE Mediterranean
area.