PreGreek-rivername-Cephissus-Turkic-kepi-and-su

 

Cephissus - Kefissos - Κήφισσος - Kifisos

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There are many rivers in Ancient (and in Modern) Greece with this name CEPHISSUS.

There were River Gods with this name in Ancient Greece, too.

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Paulys RE says:

Pre-Greek river name. (Vorgriechischer Flußname). Beekes says the suffix -σσο is Pre-Greek, too.

So I have written about it over and over: Proto Turkic "Su" could be "water" and in this case (in many other cases, too) and the Proto Turkic verb kepi- could explain the whole word. 

Kepi- means to dry out (partly), to extinguish, to disappear 

and SU is water.

Source: Dybo/Starostin Proto Altaic root

KEPI-SU could simply mean, "a water (river)hat dries out partly". 

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Pre-Greek language could have Turkic roots.

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