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In Albanian mythology Perëndi is a word for God and the sky, especially invoked in incantations and songs praying for rain. It is derived from perëndoj (Template:Lang-en), which might be borrowed from Latin parentare (Template:Lang-en) or Latin imperantem (Template:Lang-en) (in "dielli perëndon" (Template:Lang-en)), perhaps ultimately a calque on Greek ο ήλιος βασιλεύει (Template:Lang-en), literally "the sun reigns").
Others see a connection to Indo-European *perku- "thunder god" (see Lithuanian Perkūnas). In Albanian mythology, he is the consort of Prende.
Scholars seem to propose an Illyro-Thracian origin of the word.
See also
Sources
- ^ Gamkrelidze, Ivanov - Indo-European and the Indoeuropeans, p. 528, Mouton de Gruyter, 1995
- If this view is correct, it might point to an albanian solar cult -- Orel Vladimir - A concise historical grammar of the albanian language, p. 263, Brill, 2000
- Orel Vladimir - Albanian etymological dictionary, pp. 315-316, Brill, 1998
- A primitive Illyro-Thracian God of the Sky and Thunder invoked especially in songs praying for the rain Australian Slavonic and East European studies: journal of the Australian and New Zealand Slavists' Association and of the Australasian Association for Study of the Socialist Countries. University of Melbourne. 2003. p. 18.
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