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Von: "caraculiambro" <
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An: <
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Gesendet: Sonntag, 9. Juni 2002 15:11
Betreff: [tied] Re: blakhoi versus dakai
> Similarity? Since when does sharing a single vowel count
> as "similarity"?? How many times does it have to be repeated on this
> list that <blakHos> (pronounced [vlaxos], pl. <blakHoi> [vlaxi]) is
> the Greek spelling of South Slavic vlaxU < *volxU, itself a
> Slavicised version of Germanic *walxaz? There's absolutely nothing
> mysterious about the etymology of the word, and no real-world
> connection, genuine or folk-etymological with <dakai> is even
> remotely possible. There _is_ a demonstrable etymological connection
> with Wales, for example -- and that's something truly remarkable.
>
> Piotr
>
>
[Moeller]you are right Piotr but the text let understand that because of
the similiarty in the pronaunciation the romayoi made a deliberately
link with the old dacians. This is why i wondered because even for a
newbie, [vlax] is not so easy to confound with [dak] I just wonder
because normaly evn in the new greek, they should have had the old word
[ getikoi] so in this case I dont see the necesity to take an another
word for dacians and to call them vlah, so in my opinion there is not a
really link between dacians and valahians.
I wonder but about something else. In the same article is sustained the
theory the valahians or the valahian center of presence is somewhere in
the vicinity of Thessaloniky.Anyway, very close to greek people. So the
wonder is: Why did the greeks, they who called by name every folk, why
did they wait until the appearance of the sudic slavs for taking this
word from slavs to call the valahs this way, with a slavic word ( ok, a
celtic tribe in german mouth, took by slavs and so on, we know all the
storry of this word )?The valahs are - regarding the hungarian theory -
neigbours of greeks, so normaly they shouldn't need to wait the slavs
for calling their neighbours by name.Am I wrong or is the idea of vlachs
neigbours of greeks wrong or what then?