Re: Daci

it is very interesting to see that such kind of discutions have all
the root that hte dacians disappeared.
I just want to point a speculation and maybe not a speculation.
Into romanian language , "our people", ours, or "from here" or
indigens means in the literraly language " de aici ".
In the popular way this construciton is shorted in this form "d'aci"
And "from here" " from this place" is literally "de aici " the same .
but in the popular way of speaking is "d'acia"
So, this is the way to write it.
In the pronounciation none can observe the apostroph "'"
so, the one who hear about he will hear "daci" or "dacia"

Strange thing i guess.

I see that 3 big folks have been latinised and dissapiered from
europe in the same way. These are the thracians ( implicitely the
dacians) , the celts in europa and the iberics..
The latinisation have had succes only on these 3 folks. No succes
over germanic area, no succes over slavi area, no succes in africa or
arabian area...
If we remember that the romans themself sustined they are
too "thracians" then we must assume something was very common to
latin, and these 3 folks..
There is no another way to explain the latinisation of them.
Specially of the dacians where the 160 years of roman dmoniation,
with just ( at least of this time) 11 cities and the rest of the
country fully peasants..
If we remember that the big part of army was withdrwaed from Dacia 12
years after conquest of it, there are really very big questions to
answer..
Moreover, Kekaumenos ( i repet myself, but this affirmation was made
in XI century after we know that in 4 Century Attila, The King of
Huns delcared himself and "duce of the dacians" ) afirm that the
valahs are the the people once called "dacians".
Or valahs, are mentioned in slavic documents first by Chronik of
Nestor from Kiev as the inhabitants of the actually rumanian
theritory..
Simple we could say dacian were named lately in X-XII
centuries "valahi" and in the XIV-XV centuried they became
called "rumuni"..
But it is not so simple.. It should be so simple, we will have no
discutions more about dacian language:))

Best Regards,

A. Moeller