Cc: B-Hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Marathon
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 19:29:37 -0400
All of these are extremely unlikely. More later, Deo et tempore volentibus...
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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?
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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