![]() Simtiem dzina govis, vēršus, | simtiem bērus kumeliṇus. ![]() There was not sand nor sea nor the cool waves. ( RV 9.81.4)ĭaityānāṃ Dānavānaṃ ca Yakṣāṇāṃ ca mahaujasām.ĭaityāna and Dānavāna and Yakṣāṇā of great might. The Sky, the Forests, the Mountains tree-tressed. Or trodden something with his powerful foot. I can now add one from Hittite and a couple from Latvian. A few will suffice here by way of illustration. I have devoted a paper to this topic and collected there numerous examples from the Vedas, the Indian epics, the Avesta, Hesiod and Homer, and the Germanic and Celtic literatures (West 2004). ![]() It consists of the construction of a verse from three names (or occasionally other substantives), of which the third is furnished with an epithet or other qualification. 117-119:Ī special case of Behaghel’s Law that is distinct and easily recognizable is what I call the Augmented Triad. West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. Another interesting Laudator post, on an IE topic I’d forgotten about if I ever knew it from M.L.
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