Re: Daci

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> --- 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).
> >
> > Piotr
> >
> >
> 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

Found it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/6449

and above.