programa "logosi"

*h 1 leudh- "grow, increase"
"people, freeman" → "free"
"children", "plant"
The Liberalia testifies: In the Roman world liberi could not have been
endowed by birth with the full rights inherent in their community, due to the
fact that it was after the Liberalia that Romans became fully enfranchised
members of their country, cives with full rights, and this tradition should be
founded on the more specific definition of *h 1 leudheros "people, freeman"
as adults, as the raised generation, which was empowered with full rights to
participate in all activities of its society. Viewed in this way, it is particularly
worthy of attention that Stuart Mann offers the words *leudhis "tribe,
people" and *leudheros "free" separately and the latter is reconstructed by
him as meaning "active, free; action, freedom, abandon".
The tenable conclusion to be drawn from the linguistic approach to the
comparative study of Liber, Libera, jEleuvqera and Louzera is that the images
of these gods can be traced back to Late Common-Indo-European, and
that, in the Roman mythology, Liber and Libera were inherited from Late
Common-Indo-European consisting conditionally of A and B dialects. Besides
it, we have to consider Liber and Libera as the divinities presiding not
only over vegetation, but by and large over the growth of both plants and
human beings.
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