Osservazioni sulla etimologia e funzione di due teonimi umbri

• Authors: Roszak, Tamara

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Some observations on the etymology and function of two umbrian the onyms

Abstracts

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The article deals with the names of two Umbrian deities written in the Iguvine Tablets, PUEMUNE (dat. sg. m.) and VESUNE (dat. sg. f.). The author relates the Umbrian forms to the Indo-European roots *pō(i)- and *ṷes-, both of them meaning ‘to pasture’, which produce respectively: Lith. piemÂnÅ (f.) ‘shepherdess’, piemẽo (m.) ‘shepherd’, Gk. poim»n (m.) ‘id.’ and Hitt. ṷēštara- (c.) ‘shepherd’, Av. vāstar- (m.) ‘id.’. The Umbrian theonym PUEMUN- can be connected with the Lusitanian name of the pastoral goddess Poemanae (dat. sg. f.). The root ves- of the other Umbrian theonym can be compared with the root of the Lusitanian name Vestero (dat. sg. m.) ‘pastoral god’. The Umbrian noun has the suffix IE. *-H noH -, present in the Italic theonyms 1 2 (e.g. Lat. Pōmōna). Pieces of the same sheep were sacrificed to both deities, which additionally proves their pastoral function.

Keywords

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Umbrian language; etymology; historical linguistics

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Collectanea Philologica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 17

Dates

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2014

Contributors

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Roszak, Tamara

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Uniwersytet Łódzki, Katedra Filologii Klasycznej, Zakład Latynistyki i Językoznawstwa Indoeuropejskiego

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She received her M.Phil. in Classical Philology (1988) and Ph.D. in Indo-European linguistics (2006) from the University of Łódź, Poland, where she is currently affiliated at the Department of Linguistics and Indo-European Studies. Her research interests are primarily in the Indo-European linguistics, especially in the history and etymology of the Italic and Romance languages and dialects of Italian. She was part of research stages at the Comenius University in Bratislava (1993), at the University for Foreigners in Perugia (1994), at the Ludwig Maxi- milian University of Munich (1995) and at the University of Milan (2013)

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http://hdl.handle.net/11089/6127