Re: [tied] RE: De Aedificies

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From: "S & L" <mbusines@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:03 AM
Subject: [tied] RE: De Aedificies



> > Piotr maybe will be so kind to tell us if the second part of the
word
> > "Mauroballe/Maurovalle", aka "balle/valle" could give in slavic
valaX
> > and vlaX
> > Alex
>
> Cardinal points with the corresponding colors: black (North), red
(South),
> white (West), and green or clear blue (East)
> After the Iranian fashion the ancient Croats ascribed a specific color
to
> each of the four cardinal points of the compass in the territory which
they
> inhabited. The color white designated the west, red the south, green
the
> east, and black the north
> [SAUSSURE, "Le Système" 235 – 297; IDEM, "L’origine des noms" 23;
SAKAC,
> "The Iranian origins of the Croats", 37 – 40]
>
> S o r i n

This is the usual explanation. The Mauro was supposed to be from the
language of the Iranians.
But if Mauro from Maurovalle should mean something "north" it doesnt
matches with the time when the word is given by Procopius. There is VI
centuries as the slavs just entered the area, they still did not have
the time of making dwellings which should be so known, and it will imply
these Iranians should have been south of Dacia for accepting "Mauro" as
"North". And in fact this "vale" is the word needed for the slavs to get
an "valah".