Re: [tied] Re: Daci

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 12667
Date: 2002-03-13

 
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From: altamix
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Daci

> Hi Piotr
> just one more question on this topic.
> If we do not know anything about Daciaan langauge, how we can assume if something come from it or not?
> Is not preposterous to do that?
 
Not if we know that it came from some other source. For example why should a feature known to be of relatively recent Slavic or Greek origin be regarded as "Dacian"? And mind you, we do know a thing or two about Getic. We have a large number of placenames, hydronyms and some personal and tribal names that yield themselves to combinatorial analysis, and glosses in Greek herbaries -- not much, but better than nothing. The really preposterous thing to do would be to claim that something "must" be attributed to Dacian or Thracian substratal influence if there isn't a shred of evidence to support such a claim.
 
Piotr