--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> A new thought. In early Greek sources (Herodotus, Thucydides) the
Daoi are mentioned as a barbarian ethnos located in the general
direction of Dacia, hence Daos (*da:wos, cf. Latin Da:vus) used as
the name of a slave. If the Daoi and the Dakoi are alternative names
of the same people, perhaps the real base is *dah2- (*dah2-w-o-,
*dah2-k-o-), which could be related to *dah2-mo- (Gk. de:mos/da:mos)?
Dacian dava- (*dah2-w-ah2) would then mean the centre of a local
political unit. (I assume *a: is preserved as such in Dacian).
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> Piotr
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But didn't the Daci have a king Dece-balus?
Also, I was reminded of Glen's derivation of Etruscan lautni
(?) "people" (but now I can't find a proper search word for the
posting) as "people of the rivers" which puzzled him.
Torsten