Re: Trakai

From: g
Message: 26029
Date: 2003-09-25

>What do you expect here? Just a question for you to think about. How
>would you explain trough Baltic a name as "AdunaTii Copãceni"?
>T= german "z"; ã= schwa; ce= german "tsche"
> Kailas, Alex,
>
>ADUNAISHI is Latvian form of Lithuanian word ADUNAICHIAI. Word ADUNAICHIAI
>is plural form of word ADUNAITIS. There is Lithuanian surname Adunaitis,
>which means SON OF ADUNAS. Word ADUNAS in Lithuanian language means DARNER.

In Romanian, the plural <adunatzii> means "the gathered."
(Adunas: any relation to Hebrew <baruch Adonai>?)
> Latvian word KOPSH means FROM.

In Romanian, <Copaceni> is a toponym, derived from <copaci> [ko-'patS]
"trees". <copac; copaci> is a synonym of <pom; pomi> and <arbore, arbori>.

George