Re: [tied] Post-Gothic "Getic" fantasies

By the way, there is an Albanian word <besë> which could be
translated as 'faith, trust' in English but the real meaning is
something like 'to be bound (through the word of honor)!.
'pre në besë' or 'thy besën' is to cut this binding, but in this case
you are a person in whom should not be trusted.
I wonder if there is any relation to Thracian.

Alvin

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> There was a Thracian goddess Bendis.
> There was a Thracian tribe Bessi.
>
> Most authorities agree that both names are from PIE *bhAndh- "bind"
> (letting A be the Ablaut vowel).
>
> But that is cognate with Latin findo, ... fissus.
>
> So can we reconstruct a bit of Thracian grammar from this (contrast
> Germanic *bind- ... *bund-)?
>
> Eg. present n-infix, past participle *-ds- > *-ss- (rare in
Germanic)?
>
> It does show a certain similiarity to Latin.
>
> Torsten