kand-, skand- and (O.Ind.) (s)kend-

    kand-, skand- and (O.Ind.) (s)kend-

    English meaning: to glow; bright, *moon

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “leuchten, glũhen, hell”

    Note: Root kand-, skand- and (O.Ind.) (s)kend- : “to glow; bright, *moon” derived from Root sen(o)- (*heno): “old, *old moon”

    Material: O.Ind. candati ‘shines”, Intens. participle cáni-ścadat “ũberaus gleaming” (*skn̥d-), candrá- (ścandrá-, EN Hári-ścandra-) “luminous, gleaming, glũhend; m. moon”, candanam. n. ‘sandelholz (incense “); Gk. κάνδαρος ἄνθραξ Hes.; Alb.Gheg hânë, Tosc hënë “moon” (*skandnü); Urdu chand “moon” The cognate of moon in Alb. is the abbreviated compound of Root k̂u̯on-, k̂un- : “dog” + Root dhau- : “to press, wolf” PN Candavia : Maybe Illyr. PN Sca(n)din-avia (Κανδαοΰια), Candavii Montes. The mountains separating Illyricum from Macedonia, across which the Via Egnatia rO.N. Alb.Gheg hânë “moon” : Root sen(o)- (*heno): “old, *old moon” : Gk. ἕνος “old” in contrast to “anew”, only in standing phrases of fruit and employees of the last year, also from the last day of the last month or moon circulation which initiates at the same time the new circulation (since Hes.); in the last-named formation usually ἕνη καὶ νέα (sc. σελήνη; Att. since Solon). Therefore Alb. hana “(*old) moon” : Gk. ἕνος “old moon” : σέλας n. “ brilliance”, σελήνη, Eol. σελάννα “moon” (*σελασνᾱ), σελαγεῖν “ shine “; hence σελ-ήνη “ the full-moon “ see Root su̯el-2 : “to smoulder, burn”. Lat. candeō, -ēre “gleam, shimmer, bright glow”, transitive *candō, -ere in accendō, incendō “zũnde an”, candidus “blinding, dazzling white, gleaming”, candor “blinding, dazzling weiße paint, color, Lichtglanz”, candēla, candēlübrum “candlestick, flambeaux” (out of it Welsh etc. cannwyll ds.), cicindēla “Leuchtkäferchen, Öllampe”, cicendula “Lämpchen” (redupl. *ce-cand-); Welsh cann “white, bright”, M.Bret. cann “Vollmond”, O.Bret. cant “canus”; borrowing from candidus nimmt Pedersen KG. I 190 an (compare Lat. splendidus > Bret. splann), but Welsh cannaid “luminous; sun, moon” and zahlreiche derivatives lassen perhaps ein genuine Celt.*kando- as possible appear, whereas belongs the FlN Kander (Baden, Switzerland) to nichtIE gand- “ waste, desolate liegendes land”, Bertoldi BSL 30, 111 and Anm. 2. It seems that the name for the moon passed from PIE to Altaic languages through celt.- Illyr.: Protoform: *ǘńu

    English meaning: moon; (moon cycle), year Turkic protoform: *üń Mongolian protoform: *oj Tungus protoform: *ańŋa

    Note: АПиПЯЯ 283, Дыбо 11, Мудрак Дисс. 70, Лексика 77. A Western isoglO.S.S. The initial root must have been Lat. annus “year, *moon year” from Root at- : “to go; year”

    References: WP. I 352, WH. I 151 f.