Kuhn’s 1855 Intuition — Minos and Manu

“Long before I identified that what binds all of these deities together is the M-N- sound, Adalbert Kuhn (in 1855) had an intuition that Minos… and Manu… were cognate. He tried to derive the one from the other, linguistically. It did not quite work. Now we understand that although the myth of Minos is part of Indo-European Greek mythology, the Minoan culture itself was not Indo-European. Therefore, it’s not entirely surprising that Kuhn could not demonstrate cognateness. As an aside and as a piece I mean to write soon, in almost every province of Indo-European culture that I have so far examined properly, there have been brilliant people like Kuhn who noticed some sameness about certain M-N- words and cognate meanings. Dumézil looked at the Pacific Islanders use of Mana, but could not have then known how Indian traders could have carried that signifier from the heart of Indo-European territory where it was used as a signifier for a universal presence of energy. In other discourses I have encountered work like Kuhn’s - the brilliant Indo-Europeanist Armen Petrosyan, like me, saw something intrinsically Indo-European about Menua son of the founder of the Urartian Empire. Similarly, many have noticed a similarity between Érimón, Ireland’s first Indo-European high king, and Aryaman. But because they have not focussed on the M-N- sound element, as I am the first researcher to do, they were never able to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt the reason for the sameness or cognateness which their intuition led them to suspect and investigate unsuccessfully.”

Source: The M-N- Sound · Substack “Should we call Ancient Ukrainians the first Aryans?”

Scholarly genealogy — brilliant researchers across multiple provinces of Indo-European studies noticed the M-N- pattern but couldn’t explain it. Kuhn, Dumézil, Petrosyan, and others each spotted sameness in their own domains, but because they never focussed on the M-N- sound element itself, they could not demonstrate the cognateness their intuition led them to suspect.

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