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Iapyx- not the deity but a hero

 

According to wiki:

"Iapyx is also the name of a minor Greek wind god, the north-west or west-north-west wind."

Etymology?

Maybe the winds of Apulia?

Apulia is the name of region on Italian Peninsula. 

The name fathers wear the IAPYGES.

About  IAPYGES from this blog.

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But it is not sure. Now we have a very old (Proto-Turkic) stem:

According to Dybo/Starostin:

PTurk. *Ep- 1 to blow 2 movement of air, breeze 3 energy, tempo 4 gusty (wind) (1 дуть, веять 2 движение воздуха, ветерок 3 порыв, темп, энергия 4 порывистый (о ветре)): Uzb. äpkin (dial.) 2; Tat. ip- 1 (Seb.); Kirgh. epkin 3; Kaz. epkin 2; KKalp. epkin 3; Nogh. epkinli 4; Oyr. epkin 2.

◊ Лексика 42.

‖ A Western isogloss; however, in Jpn. the root probably merged with *ĕbà ‘winnow, blow’ q.v. (cf. especially the PJ form with a velar suffix *apu-(n)k-, OJ apug-).

Altaic languages have all similar stems like that. See above.

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Proto-Turkic *ebi-s- and *ep- have the same meaning blow, movement of air.

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Coincidence?

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Uzunbacak Adem