IE Lithuanian-Mediterranean connections
From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 181
Date: 1999-11-05
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The poll (your opinion) about Lithuanian being the
'oldest' IE language (as a linguistic non-professional I didn't take part of...)
made me think:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My house is near one of the LM III A graves of
Milatos/Crete, where a wonderful necklace of Baltic amber was found (this word
reminds me of German 'Ambra', a product of the - dead - whale head produced by
the sea, but in modern/ancient GR 'Elektron' (with GR 'H'), a name also
used for a mixture of silver and (more) gold in ancient (and later alchemistic,
too) times). The only connection I see is the golden-clear color of the
material. But there must be more - we are talking about an important part of
north-south connection in the LBA (there are other finds of amber from Mycenaean
times). I believe the language of Linear A to be a very early IE (and Etruscan
too, by the way, on purely mythological grounds). We know there is an
archaeological connection about the 14th-15th century.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What about linguistical connections? (Bearing a
Lithuanian-suffixed name myself I'd really like to know - I'm German, by the way
- that's how wars make connections you can't imagine later ...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Baltic-Mycenaean (Minoan?) connection is
certain on archaeological grounds - how about linguistical
contributions?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sabine Ivanovas</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>