Les centaures, Cerbère et leurs parents (non-)indo-européens (quelques notes sur les traces des contacts des Indo-européens au Proche Orient ancien)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14428/babelao.vol1011.2022.65083Keywords:
centaur, gandharva, Kassite, shapeshifter, Cerberus, theriomorphic, etymology, North Caucasian, mythological pantheonAbstract
This paper focuses on the origin of several etymologically obscure words of the Greek and Indo-Iranian (foremost, Sanskrit) vocabularies (mostly nouns referring to certain deities or creatures of lower mythological pantheons), such as Gr. κένταυρος / Skt. gandharvá- and Gr. Κέρβερος / Skt. śábala- (one of the two helldogs in Indian mythology). It is argued that these forms cannot be traced to any Proto-Indo-European etymon, but, most likely, are borrowed from some Near Eastern non-Indo-European language(s), probably belonging to the North Caucasian macro-family.
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