Re: [tied] Piotr and the Dacians:-)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 15232
Date: 2002-09-06

Sorry, I didn't finish the sentence. ... I'm more inclined to believe he had a nice beard (*bHardH-), like Frederick Barbarossa. "Shining Star" would hardly be a typical name in any IE branch known to me.
 
Piotr
 
 
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Piotr and the Dacians:-)

> The name of Illyrian king Bardhyl- is still explained with Albanian words bardh + h/yll (shining star).
 
This is just a folk etymology based on the similarity of sound between two arbitrarily chosed _modern_ Albanian words and an Illyrian name (with a gap of two millennia between them). I'm more inclined to believe that