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- noun The
name of agod .
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The theonym was then loaned into Old Latin during the Orientalization Period where it subsequently acquired a reduplicated form Marmart-.
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As I was doing my daily perusal of Google Books, I came across The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World1 with a table of reconstructed Indo-European deities, therein claiming that the theonym Mars may be derived from an Indo-European root *Māwort- c.f.
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Sanskrit Marutas and that the theonym Vulcan may stem from *Wĺ̥keh₂nos.
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As I was doing my daily perusal of Google Books, I came across The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World1 with a table of reconstructed Indo-European deities, therein claiming that the theonym Mars may be derived from an Indo-European root *Māwort- c.f.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Sanskrit Marutas and that the theonym Vulcan may stem from *Wĺ̥keh₂nos.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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