"EL" in Dido's name "Elissa" isn't the "sun" - it is "god", see Plautus,
Poenulus 5,1 ("et ELonim w-ELonot..." - Akkusativ "the gods and godesses ...");
maybe "eli" - "my god" as commonly in Hebrew names -
- but the rest? it sounds similar to the (male) prophet's name "El-isha" ("God
helps"), but who can find out, if an Ayin or another "nongreek" or "nonroman"
Konsonant is hidden in that name; and - god help us! - the "s"!! - is it zayin,
or ssamekh, or tsade, or ssin or shin? and follows an aleph, or an ayin, or a
he, or nothing after that "a" at the end?
What funny names for "uterus" and "moon" shall those short words be? Three
radicals are the norm for each word in Semitic languages (EL is a short form of
ELH, plural ELoHīm, Plautus' Phoenician has "Elonīm"), filled up with
Vocals, added by prefixes and suffixes. "uterus" might be something like
"mishbar"; "sun" is "shamash" or something similar in all semitic languages.
grusz, hansz
Stefano Vitrano schrieb:
> The name ?EL-IS-SA? comes from Phoenician, it means ?Uterus (SA) of Sun
> (EL) and Moon (IS)?.
> The name Elissa is also attested in a Greek legend of Timeus and Iustinus
> in which is narrated the story of Carthaginian queen Theiosso (Elissa in
> Phoenician).
http://marvin.sn.schule.de/~latein/vergil.htm
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