EDITED: Nectar/drink = mead? Ambrosia/food = ?/manna?

  • Mothra
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    11 days ago

    Yeah but it doesn’t share its root with ambrosia.

    The concept of an immortality drink is attested in at least two ancient Indo-European languages: Greek and Sanskrit. The Greek ἀμβροσία (ambrosia) is semantically linked to the Sanskrit अमृत (amṛta) as both words denote a drink or food that gods use to achieve immortality. The two words appear to be derived from the same Indo-European form *ṇ-mṛ-tós, “un-dying”[20] (n-: negative prefix from which the prefix a- in both Greek and Sanskrit are derived; mṛ: zero grade of *mer-, “to die”; and -to-: adjectival suffix). A semantically similar etymology exists for nectar, the beverage of the gods (Greek: νέκταρ néktar) presumed to be a compound of the PIE roots *nek-, “death”, and -*tar, “overcoming”.

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        11 days ago

        Yeah sorry I noticed too late that you weren’t suggesting they did. Some days I’ll argue even the date, I need to touch more grass.

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          11 days ago

          No worries! This sort of stuff happens. (Blame Godzilla!)

          Plus you added a lot of info to the discussion.