Re: IE models (was: Ligurian)

I knew them and I'm also very interested

2013/2/24, Tavi <oalexandre@...>:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
>>
>> The forms axo(n)ias, axonis are attested on lead foil inscriptions
> found
>> at the thermal station Amélie-les-Bains/Banys d'Arles
>> (Rosselló). They're Italoid votive texts directed to water godesses
>> called kantas niskas 'sacred girls'. These inscriptions, discovered at
>> the beggining of the 20th, have been studied by Coromines in a 1976
>> article, but are mostly unknown to the rest of the world:
>>
>> KANTAS NISKAS ROGAMOS ET DEP(R)ECAMUS VOS OT SANETE NON LERANCE (E)
> DEUS
>> ET NESCA PETEIA ET ELETA NESCA SLA(T) SNUKU AS M(E)
>> [...]
>>
> I'm really puzzled by the *null* interest shown by IE-ists, even in this
> list.
>
> Of course, kantas is a femenine plural from IE *k´wen-to- 'holy'.
> From the Germanic semantics (e.g. Gothic hunsl 'sacrifice', English
> housel), I gather the original meaning could be 'offer', as in Iberian
> eguan (surely a deverbative noun from an unrecorded verb *e-guan-).
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