Re: Rex-Raj-Rix

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
> <josimo70@...> wrote:
> > Does the preservation of word *Re:g^-s in Celtic, Italic and

Indic

> demonstrate any particular social meaning or it's just aleatory?

May

> represent a conservation of IE king in these people? There was
> another languages preserving *re:g^-s ? I know there is possibly
> Thracian Rhe:sos (<*Re:z-os).
> >
> The standard background remark on that observation is that Celtic

and

> Indic are at opposite ends of the geographical range of IE. But
> according to Karl Horst Schmitt (forgot the title of the article)
> Celtic shows sign of having been in contact with the Eastern

branches

> of IE at an early stage. The nearest point of contact (between

Celtic

> and Indic) would have been north of the Black Sea. And not wanting

to

> upset people I abstain here from making any reference to
> Cimmerians/Cimbri/Cymru.
>
> But perhaps we should look beyond IE.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/Hrg.html
>
> I haven't yet added the Finnish and Hungarian r-k- "build,

construct"

> roots.
>
>
> Torsten

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There are in Albanian a couple of words closely related to *re:gs.
Such words are <i ri> 'young' with derivatives 'ndrit' < n- +d- +rit,
a participle form of 'to shine', <rini> or <të ritë> 'youth', t-ri-
m 'brave man', all from a reduced form ri- (cf. OIrl. ri 'king').
According to primitive consciousness, king must be young, brave,
shiny, because with youth comes prosperity, power, wealth. But, also
from a lengthened o-grade scale *ro:gs, there are in Albanian:
rreth 'region', i vij rreth 'I govern, I rule', s'i vij rreth 'I
can't govern, I can't rule', mbrothësi < mb(ë)- + roth- + -si< *re:g
(s) 'advance, progress' etc.
So, there are many evidences of tight relations between Illyrians,
Celtic and Italic tribes. Instead to look for vague testimonies, I
think that it will be better to know much more and much deeply
Albanian, as descendant of Illyrian language.

Regards,
Abdullah Konushevci