IE Lithuanian-Mediterranean connections
From: Ivanovas/Milatos
Message: 182
Date: 1999-11-05
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The poll (your opinion) about Lithuanian being the
'oldest' IE language (as a linguistic non-professional I didn't take part of...)
made me think:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My house is near one of the (ceramically
determinating for this phase, cf. Kanta) LM III A/B graves of Milatos/Crete,
where a wonderful necklace of Baltic amber was found (this word reminds me of
German 'Ambra', a product of the - dead - whale head produced by the sea,
but in modern/ancient GR 'Elektron - with GR 'H', - a name also used
for a mixture of silver and (more) gold in ancient - and later alchemist, too -
times). The only connection I see is the golden-clear color of the
material.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But there must be more - we are talking about an
important part of north-south connection (trade) in the LBA (there are other
finds of Baltic amber from - at least - Mycenaean Greece, too). I believe
the language of Linear A to be a very early IE (and Etruscan too, by the way, on
purely mythological grounds). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We know there is an archaeological connection about
the 14th-15th century.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What about linguistical connections? (Bearing a
Lithuanian-suffixed name myself I'd really like to know - I'm German, by the way
- that's how wars make connections you can't imagine later ...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Baltic-Mycenaean (Minoan?) link is certain
on archaeological grounds - how about linguistical contributions?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sabine Ivanovas</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Crete</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>