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- From: Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>
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- Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 05:59:25 -0400
On 5/27/2013 7:29 PM, Barry H. wrote:
> All of these are extremely unlikely. More later, Deo et tempore volentibus...
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog
>
> On May 27, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> We have mentioned here before that the name of the Greek goddess
>> אתנה Athena
>> is possibly of a Semitic origin, being but a slight variation on
>> Adena, corresponding
>> to the biblical names DAN and DINAH, from the root אדן ADN, as in
>> אדון העולם
>> ADON HA-OLAM, the master of the universe.
>>
>> This morning, a man I know, confided to me that he thinks the place
>> name Marathon
>> (from which we have the Boston Marathon) is also of Semitic origin,
>> to wit: מר-אתון MAR-ATHON, there having been in this location of
>> old possibly
>> a temple to this MAR (recall מרדכי MARDKEI = MAR-AD-XAY).
>>
>> I thought that marathon is kind of a kraut, but is there possibly
>> some truth in what this inventive philologue is saying?
Ok, you've already been answered regarding Marathon. As for Athens, the etymology is unknown, and probably from a pre-hellenic language, but almost certainly IE.
--
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Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf
, (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, George Athas, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, K Randolph, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, George Athas, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, K Randolph, 05/27/2013
- [b-hebrew] Marathon, Isaac Fried, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon, Barry H., 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon, Isaac Fried, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon and "Akhenaten", jimstinehart, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon, George Athas, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon, Kevin W. Woodruff, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon, Barry, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, George Athas, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, K Randolph, 05/27/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, Ruth Mathys, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, Rolf, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, George Athas, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] to rolf, K Randolph, 05/28/2013
- [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect, George Athas, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect, Peter Streitenberger, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect, Barry, 05/28/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] Verbal Aspect, George Athas, 05/28/2013
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