[[*pal-]] | [[horse-gods]] ||| |-|-|-| Transl. | DWELLING-PROTECTOR | PIE | *█-palā* | Root [*pal-](*pal-.md) Skt. | *Viś-pala* | Lusitanian | *Trebo-pala* | would have been PIE `*trebo-palā` > Lusitanian *Trebo-pala* (name of a deity) < IE. `*trebo-palā` ‘protector of the dwelling’, cf. Vedic *Viś-pala* (f.), a horse-like goddess or heroine connected with the twin gods Aśvins (see Maggi 1983), Latin *Pales* (dat. pl. *Palibus*), a divine pair of Old Roman deities, the patrons of flocks and herds. Also the Indo-European name of the divine twins `*Pal-ikoi` (du. *Paliko*), preserved in the name of the Sicilian twin-gods *Palici* and Celtic *Alci* (cf. Witczak 1995, 1997), contains the same Indo-European root [*pal-](*pal-.md) ‘to protect’. ([[witczak1999]] p.66) ## Biblio [[witczak1999]] p.66