Jaan Puhvel (born 24 January 1932) is an Estonian comparative linguist and comparative mythologist who specializes in Indo-European studies. Born in Estonia...
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Puhvel is a surname of Estonian origin. Notable people with the surname include: Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist and mythographer...
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barrister and politician Jaan Puhvel (born 1932), Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist Jaan Puidet (born 1992), Estonian basketball player Jaan Rääts (1932–2020)...
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népōts- ("descendant, sister's son"). His former student, Indo-Europeanist Jaan Puhvel, theorises that the name might have meant "child (neve, nephew) of the...
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polytheistic religions are referred to as "mythology". Scholars such as Jaan Puhvel, J. P. Mallory, and Douglas Q. Adams have reconstructed aspects of the...
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574–587. Puhvel 1987, p. 63. Mallory & Adams 2006, pp. 411 and 434. West 2007, p. 282. Jackson 2002, p. 84. Jackson 2002, p. 85. Jaan Puhvel, Analecta...
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cosmogonical legend of Manu and Yemo, published simultaneously with Jaan Puhvel in 1975 (who pointed out the Roman reflex of the story), Bruce Lincoln...
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Birnbaum, Jaan Puhvel, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics Editors Henrik Birnbaum, Jaan Puhvel Publisher...
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depiction on a stone plate on a Bronze Age grave in Kivik, Scania, Sweden. Jaan Puhvel comments that "ancient myths teem with trite 'first couples' similar...
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Indo-Europeanists (Y. E. Arbeitman, Eric P. Hamp, Manfred Mayrhofer, Jaan Puhvel, Werner Winter, Winfred P. Lehmann) to reconstruct the PIE "parent" of...
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