ad(u)-, ad-ro- (*heĝhero)

    ad(u)-, ad-ro- (*heĝhero)

    English meaning: water current

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “Wasserlauf”

    Note: From Root angʷ(h)i- : ‘snake, worm” derived Root akʷü- (more properly ǝkʷü ): ēkʷ- : “water, river”; Root eĝhero- : “lake, inner sea”; Root ad(u)-, ad-ro- : “water current”: Illyr. pannon. VN ᾽Οσεριᾶτες [common Alb.-Illyr.-Balt -ĝh- > -d-, -z- phonetic mutation]. From Root akʷü- “water, river” nasalized in *aku̯ent- (suffixed in -er, -or) derived Root au̯(e)- 9, au̯ed-, au̯er- : “to flow, to wet; water, etc.”

    Material: Avest. aδu “ water run, brook, canal “, Ven.-Illyr. FlN Ad(d)ua (for Po), *Aduli̯a> Attel (to Danube in Bavaria), Mons of Adula “ St. Gotthard “ (probably named after the rivers streaming there), oberAustrian FlN *Adra> Attersee, Attergau, FlN Adrana > Eder (Hessen), maybe also PN Adria in Venetien (afterwards mare Adriaticum), Sicil. FlN Α᾽δρανός and Ven.-Illyr. name of Oder Οὐι-αδούας; further Ltv. FlN Adula.

    Note: The name of the primordial hill in Egyptian mythology, the first mountain that raised from the oceO.N. The mountain god was borrowed by Hitties who called the dreaming god Upelluri. Greeks received Atlas from Hittites. Atlas “*mountain probably named after the rivers streaming there “: Α῎τλας, -αντος m. “Atlas” (Od., Hes., Hdt., A. etc.), name of a God who carries the columns of the sky; originally probably name of Arcadian mountains which were spread then by the epic in general and especially (by Ionic seafarers?) was transferred to the Atlas Mountains in West Africa, see Solmsen Wortforsch. 24; about Atlas as a personification of the world axis Tièche Mus. Helv. 2, 65ff. Berber ádrür “ mountain “.

    Derivatives: Of it “Ατλαντίς f. (Hes. etc.), name of a mythical island, according to Brandenstein Atlantis (Wien 1951, = Arb. Inst. Sprachw. 3) = Crete; further “Ατλαντικός (E., pl., Arist. etc.) and “Ατλάντειος (Kritias).

    References: Vasmer ZslPh. 8, 114 f., Pokorny UrIllyr. 4, 70, 93, 109, 124.