Re: [tied] Daci

*dah2- could underlie North Iranian DaNha- (Skt. Da:sa, Lat. Dahae,
Gk. Daai); if I remember aright, Lubotsky analyses it as *daasa- <
*dah2-n-so- (I forget why he needs such a complex interpretation).
Ethnonyms with *dah2- would mean, roughly, "(our) people" -- a very
common naming pattern.

Indic dasyu-, Iranian *dahyu- (*dos-ju-) and Gk. doulos (Myc. do-e-ro-
< *dos-elo-) apparently contain a different root, *dos- 'alien,
enemy'.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:
> An relation to Indo-Iranian Dasya/Dahya, Greek doulos (*dohelos) ?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Daci


> 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).