ATTENTION: I close the "Thrakai" thread!

I really don't believe this stuff merits discussion. Haphazard
matching based on rough resemblances can only produce pure nonsense.
Please regard this thread as banned. I MEAN IT. If anyone wants to
protest or complain, please do so off-list only.

I'm having a hard time trying to push my messages and moderatorial
instructions through a malfunctioning mail server and past the
malicious alien robots that handle the email traffic at Yahoo!. Half
of my recent postings have gone down a black hole, and the other half
have been delayed, sometimes by 24 hrs or so. Please don't make my job
more frustrating than it already is.

To Egijus:

When you come to a forum and want to join the discussion, it's
advisable to do some lurking and watching beforehand, so that you can
get the hang of the accepted style of argumentation. It would have
been all right to say something like: "I think such-and-such words or
placenames could be related" and ask the opinion of other list
members. But juggling arbitrary Lithuanian words before our eyes
without the slightest justification, as though you had already
demonstrated the validity of such an exercise, is not the right way to
argue. It's rather easy to find "something similar" in Lithuanian for
almost any given word in any given language. But the resulting
"etymologies" have at best some entertainment value ("a town whose
inhabitants sneeze"). I am afraid I will have to reject any new
contributions from you if they are in the same style.

Piotr