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Posted on 09/18/2021 1:20:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Oh, how fun! This is one of the reasons I can’t kick the internet out yet.
My pleasure. I have a feeling we may be the only two who think so. :^)
From Wikipedia:
Because of the obscurity of the name “Perseus” and the legendary character of its bearer, most etymologists presume that it might be pre-Greek; however, the name of Perseus’s native city was Greek and so were the names of his wife and relatives. There is some idea that it descended into Greek from the Proto-Indo-European language. In that regard Robert Graves has proposed the only Greek derivation available. Perseus might be from the Greek verb πέρθειν (pérthein, “to waste, ravage, sack, destroy”) some form of which appears in Homeric epithets. According to Carl Darling Buck (Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin), the –eus suffix is typically used to form an agent noun, in this case from the aorist stem, pers-. Pers-eus therefore is a “sacker of cities”, that is, a soldier by occupation, a fitting name for the first Mycenaean warrior.
Ινδοπρεπών Αποκάλυψη …Or Indoprepon Apocalypse when transliterated.
Three!
Thank you for posting. This is fascinating!
Oh geeesh... so do we blame Bollywood on the Greeks or the Hindi?
Ohh, cant wait to dive into this. Should be fascinating
Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s sister smashing plate in Dubai restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGd1QsvOGg
It was the Greeks!!! Bollywood can be blamed on the Greeks!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_kmYhU-70Y
Blame the Greeks for this!!
I blame it on the Bossa Nova.
Thanks!
My pleasure.
:^) I guess I underestamated the interest.
Several generations removed from India, but as Texan, and American as can be. I get fascinated by a heritage to which i have ZERO knowledge or connection.
underestamated
Guess I've got to clean my glasses.
:^) I've got a lifelong friend who knows next to nothing about the couple of European homelands of his ancestors, but has long been fascinated with India.
I had the opportunity to travel to Mumbai on business. Made friends with my teams there and had a stellar time. It’s a story of contrasts.
They’re gettin’ there.
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