Re: [tied] some terms for George ( it was Re: Historical ...)

19-06-03 00:29, Lisa Darie wrote:

> In his book In Search of the Indo-Europeans J.P. Mallory mentions
> that the Thracians "left no modern descendants of their language....
> From the most reliable etymologies, a number that would not exceed
> 50 and their grammatical endings, we can safely maintain that the
> Thracians spoke an IE language and say something of its phonetic
> structure. The Dacian language, in present-day Romania, offers
> slightly less evidence, with some 25 words that can be given
> respectable IE etymologies'. Recently, various history books and
> articles mention that some linguists (without to give any name or
> book title)identified in Romanian vocabulary only 165 common words
> that are not Latin-related and are of Thracian origin, such as buza
> 'lip' and zestre 'dowry'. The problem is that I need myself to find
> out what are the words, who are the linguists and based on which
> studies they reached this conclusion.

In other words, you can't recall any names, titles or other such details
but you happen to know the exact number? Stefan Pascu has offered
something of that order, but that's a case of thracomania acuta and the
count is grossly exaggerated.

Piotr