Re: [tied] Basilica

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 15:05:01 +0000, m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> So you believe rather that there was a Dacian word "*besilica"
>(`ruler's house`, since there were no churches in old Dacian times),
>took by Greeks with /a/ instead of /e/ and regressively derivating
>"basileos" (`king, prince, ruler`),

Not only that. We find Greek <basileus> in the Mycenaean documents, ca.
1500 BC, written as QA-SI-LE-U, so we know that the Greek form derives from
*gWasileus, in turn from *gWatileus (*-s- is lost in Greek, but *-ti- >
-si-).


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