Prussian * Grubrius ‘god of spring and vegetation’ in perspective of the Italic pantheon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20342544 |
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| Authors | Václav Blažek (0000-0002-3499-5232, Masaryk University), Marta Eva Běťáková (Masaryk University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 345-356 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Baltistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0132-6503 • E-ISSN: 2345-0045 |
| Publisher | Vilnius University Press (PUBLISHER • LT) |
| DOI | 10.15388/baltistica.49.2.2213 |
| OpenAlex | W1889599650 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The god originally called *Grubrius (or merely *Grubius), worshipped by Old Prussians in connection with vegetation, seems originally to bear a name of a specific tree species. The etymological analysis suggests a relation to the Slavic dendronym *grabъ & *grabrъ "hornbeam". The Latin and German chronicles recorded his name together with the prefix per / par "for" that was part of the name of the festival dedicated to this god. In the level of theonyms, the closest cognate appears in the Umbrian theonym *Grā̌bovius, serving as an epithet of three Umbrian gods, Vofionos, Mars, and especially Iove (Iuppiter), the thunder-god
Art · Perspective (graphical) · Spring (device) · Vegetation (pathology) · Byzantine Studies and History · Engineering · Geology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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