![]() ![]() It is shown that root nouns can be straightforwardly modeled, as well as acrostatic and amphikinetic inflection: the strong and weak case endings are underlyingly unaccented and accented, respectively, and the root is unaccented in root nouns of the standard type (e.g. This paper applies “metrical grid theory” as developed by Halle and Idsardi to the standardly reconstructed accent-ablaut paradigms of PIE. This study of several obscure and archaic epithets from three Indo-European poetic traditions makes it possible to suggest a new interpretation of a difficult Homeric word and reveals a further aspect of Indo-European poetics. Thus in a number of Indo-European traditions there is a close association between the sun, waters, and immortality. ![]() 16, 7) and with one’s immortal life: xvahe gaiiehe xvanuuatō aməṣ̌ahe (Y. ![]() Lastly, no less significant is another Younger Avestan epithet xvanuuant- ‘sunny’ (as if from PIE *s(h₂)wen-went-), that is associated with the heavenly waters (Y. Secondly, Younger Avestan axvarəta-, the standing epithet of xvarənah-, can be traced back to a transponate *n̥-s(h₂)wel-to- and interpreted as ‘not lit by the sun’, which is exactly true of xvarənah-, concealed in the waters of the sea Vourukaṣ̌əm (Yt. at RV X, 82, 4c): asūrtam rájas- is the Vedic term for the Underworld, exactly matching the description of the Underworld river Styx as ἀάατος (rájas- = Ἔρεβος). This paper first discusses Vedic asūrta- (ἅπ. The poetic status of reconstructed *n̥-séh₂wnto- in Indo-European is confirmed by similar formations derived from the word for ‘sun’ in archaic Indo-Iranian texts. It can be assumed that in the post-Homeric period this epithet underwent a formal renewal and is indirectly continued by ἀνάλιος/ ἀνήλιος of the tragic poetry (e.g. This paper argues that ἀάατος is related to the Indo-European word for ‘sun’ and goes back to a proto-form *ahāwato- < *n̥seh₂wnto-: the juncture ἀάατον Στυγὸς ὕδωρ (Ξ 271) can now be understood as ‘the sunless water of the Styx’. Other etymologies that have been suggested are equally unsatisfactory. ἀυάτα with ᾰ-ᾰ), and metrical lengthening is not an attractive explanation in this context. The prosodic structure of aāāton (Ξ 271) / aāatos does not support this connection either (cf. Traditional connection with ἄτη explains neither form (ἀα- for ἀνα ) nor meaning. This paper addresses the etymology of obscure Homeric adjective ἀάατος (epithet of the waters of the Styx at Ξ 271 also attested at ϕ 91, χ 5, Ap.Rh. ![]()
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