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===Thunder god=== The association with thunder, suggested by the etymology of Taranis's name, is confirmed by his equation with Jupiter.<ref name=Meid>{{cite journal |last=Meid |first= Wolfgang |title=Keltische Religion im Zeugnis der Sprache |journal=Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie |volume=53 |issue=1 |date=2003 |pages=20–40 |doi=10.1515/ZCPH.2003.20 }}</ref>{{rp|33}} Taranis's name corresponds etymologically to that of the Germanic god [[Donar]] (i.e., Thor).<ref name=Meid/>{{rp|33}} Peter Jackson has conjectured that the theonyms Taranis and Donar (as well as perhaps the epithet [[Jupiter Tonans|Tonans]] of Jupiter) originated as a result of the "fossilization of an original epithet or [[epiklesis]]" of the [[Proto-Indo-European mythology|proto-Indo-European]] thunder god [[*Perkʷūnos]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jackson |first=Peter |date=2002 |title=Light from Distant Asterisks. Towards a Description of the Indo-European Religious Heritage |journal=Numen |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=61–102 |jstor=3270472 |doi=10.1163/15685270252772777}}</ref>{{rp|77}} [[Calvert Watkins]] compared Taranis's name with the name of the [[Hittites|Hittite]] weather god [[Tarḫunna]]. However, [[John T. Koch]] pointed out that an etymology linking the two theonyms would reverse the order of the metathesis (so that Taranis precedes Tanaris) and therefore compromise the proto-Indo-European etymology.<ref name=Koch>{{cite book|last=Koch|first=John T.|title=Celto-Germanic, Later Prehistory and Post-Proto-Indo-European vocabulary in the North and West |publisher=University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies |date=2020 }}</ref>{{rp|143}}
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