Dear Piotr,
Dacian was no longer spoken in Dacia when the New World was colonized,
but the word dagger still exists in English.
Best regards,
Paul Alesu
Paul Alesu wrote:
> 3. In this scenario Dacians are basically foreigners to proto
Romanians and their ancestors, so there should be some linguistic traits
about this foreignership. Something like the English word dagger
and the French dague which probably came from the Latin daca that
meant Dacian knife. Only foreigners (in relation to Dacians) could
call it _Dacian_ knife. Are you aware of some foreignership
traits related to Dacians in Romanian?
Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
If the scenario is true, Dacian was no longer spoken in Dacia when the
Proto-Romanians colonized the country. It had been dead for several
centuries.