Talk:Ἔρεβος

Cognate with Gothic riqis "darkness" and Sanskrit rájas "cloudy sky." Presumably from a proto-root h1regw-.

Related to Semitic?

Could it be applied to "Erebos" the considerations about "Europe"? <<There have been attempts to connect Eurṓpē to a Semitic term for "west", this being either Akkadian erebu meaning "to go down, set" (said of the sun) or Phoenician 'ereb "evening, west", which is at the origin of Arabic maghreb and Hebrew ma'arav. Michael A. Barry finds the mention of the word Ereb on an Assyrian stele with the meaning of "night, [the country of] sunset", in opposition to Asu "[the country of] sunrise", i.e. Asia. The same naming motive according to "cartographic convention" appears in Greek Ἀνατολή (Anatolḗ "[sun] rise", "east", hence Anatolia). Martin Litchfield West stated that "phonologically, the match between Europa's name and any form of the Semitic word is very poor", while Beekes considers a connection to Semitic languages improbable. Next to these hypotheses there is also a Proto-Indo-European root *h1regʷos, meaning "darkness", which also produced Greek Erebus.>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe --Manfariel (talk) 12:27, 2 July 2021 (UTC)