Re: [tied] Basilica

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>> So you believe rather that there was a Dacian word "*besilica"
>>(`ruler's house`, since there were no churches in old Dacian times),
>> took by Greeks with /a/ instead of /e/ and regressively derivating
>> "basileos" (`king, prince, ruler`),
>
> Not only that. We find Greek <basileus> in the Mycenaean documents,
> ca. 1500 BC, written as QA-SI-LE-U, so we know that the Greek form
> derives from *gWasileus, in turn from *gWatileus (*-s- is lost in
> Greek, but *-ti- > -si-).

The Myceaean word was hinted on another list but also on cybalist
during previous discussions (no effect on Alex, though). In fact,
according to him, that would show that both Greek and Dacian turned
*gW into *b, and the loanword in Greek was veeery ancient. :-)

Regards,
Marius Iacomi