--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> The name [ZALMOXIS]is Getic, in the first place, and
I don't
> think a careful distiction between Getic (Dacian)
> and Thracian is unnecessary pedantry.
*****GK: What is your view on the Costoboci? As Horia
Vlad pointed out a couple of days ago, the name
[COSTOBOCI]originally appears in a list of Don basin
Sarmatian tribes (PLINY, Nat.Hist.,VI,vii,19) Would a
plausible Iranic explanation be available? On the
other hand the group's 2nd c. AD royal family bears
Thracian (Getic?) names. Is a Thracian (
alternatively Getic) explanation also possible?
Perhaps the Iranic and Thracian/Getic would converge?
[I notice BTW that another Thracian word list has
ZAN-, ZENES for "clan, family" where you have tried
Iranic "ZANA" in the matter of the Alizones].===== A
correction as to the Costobocan context from Ammianus
Marcellinus: this is found not in Book XXXI (as per
Vlad) but in XXII,8,42.*****
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