A Look into the Indo-European Bedroom: Vedic 'yóni'- and Greek 'eúné'

• Lucien van Beek ^[1]
  1. [1] Leiden University

     Leiden University

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Historische Sprachforschung = Historical linguistics, ISSN 0935-3518, Nº. 132, 2019, págs. 4-34
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In this contribution I propose to etymologically connect Vedic yóni- ‘safe place; bed, nest; womb’ and Avestan yaona- ‘safe place’ with Greek εὐνή ‘bed; lair’ as well as Old Irish úam ‘cave; lair, den’. I derive these words from a PIE formation *(H)i̯eumn- V- meaning ‘nest, private place’ and derived from the root *(H)i̯eu- ‘to separate, set apart’ (Vedic pres. yuyóti). Furthermore, it is argued that the Greek adjective 'eúnis' ‘bereft’ as well as the noun 'humén' ‘membrane’ derive from the same root