From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 13767
Date: 2002-05-26
>hi together,<Barbaroi> are people who when they speak make sounds like <bar bar>,
>ist there a well , precisely ethymology of the greek
>word "barbaros" ?I should see the sufix "os" is typicaly a greek
>sufix but nothing more.
>I just ask it because i should like to see if there is any connection
>with the neighbours people of the greek in balcans, the shepperds,
>which use their words for driving the sheeps with the words "ba^r"
>or "bi^r".
>It seems to be a logical explanation for the people who use "bi^r"
>or "ba^r" due the fact they are allways driving thier sheeps in the
>vicinity of the greek,so very easy to call them them the "ba^r"
>or "bi^r"-people.
>The question is on the second "bar" is this just a normal repeting of
>the "ba^r" or does it mean something els?
>Any reply would be kindly appreciated.