Re: [tied] -inthos, -ssos

--- In cybalist@..., "Dr. Antonio Sciarretta" <sciarretta@...>
wrote:

> >BTW, please note
> >
> >Germanía (Prok.) - town in the region of Pautalia (Kjustendil),
> >today - Sapareva banja. The town was situated along the river of
> >Dzherman, previously known as Germanica (1378 AD), German (1479),
> >from the antique German-. It is explained from the IE *ghermo-

`warm'

> >in the Old-Ind. gharmá `heat', the Armen. jerm `warm', the Greek
> >themós `the same'. The Thracian village obviously got its name from
> >the river name of *Germana (resp. -as). Similar name is attested in
> >the Baltics: Germona (in a Russian source from 1559 AD).
> >
> >Did the Odin people stay here before moving on to Saxland, named
> >Germani?
>
> There were also Germisara and Germizera in Dacia.
> The first name is explainable as 'warm stream'.
> For the second, who has a suggestion ?
> By the way, in ancient Germania, we can find at least one place-

name that

> looks like dacian: Setidava, by the Vistula fl.
> Other place-names in -dava are found only in Dacia prope dicta,

Moesia

> (also populated by daco-mysian speakers) and Illyria (but in the

very

> eastern zone later called Dacia Mediterranea), as far as I know. So

there

> were Dacians in present-day Poland, close to the Baltic and to

Germany.

> Would you dream for a while that Germani comes from a place-name

*Germa(-s)

> (the warm (land)) somewhere in greater-Dacia (or possibly Thracia,

but

> probably *Germana would have given another ethnic name) ?

"Warm lands" would be excellent for a dream. It's getting rather
autumn-like here. But naming yourselves from a river *Germanika
sounds OK to me too, cf. Dani and all those *d-n- rivers

Torsten