Re: [tied] Romanian Loan in OCS?

13-10-03 17:16, Egijus wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I think that word GARDAS is Thracian word loan by Albanians.

You may think what you like, but where's the evidence? I don't know of a
single attestation of "gardas" in the limited corpus of Thracian words
available to us. We have the etymologisable toponymic elements <-bria>
and <-diza> instead, with the approximate meaning 'town, fort'.

> Thracian language have splitted into Antravagian, Budenian,
> Dacian, Galindian, Kurshian, Latgalian, Lithuanian, Nadruvian,
> Niurian, Prussian, Selian, Skalvian, Suduvian, Zhemaitian and
> Zhemgalian languages.

This is absolute nonsense. You evidently believe that the Baltic
languages are derived from Thracian, but what else, apart from your
Baltocentric wishful thinking, justifies such a connection? And why list
so many East and West Baltic dialects mixed together with Dacian tossed
in for good measure, as if you were citing a Biblical genealogy? Is it
just because you like the sound of their names (some of them misspelt)?

> Prussian language have splitted into Germanic languages.

Now this is really too ridiculous to merit a comment. Old Prussian
(unlike Thracian) is a decently documented and rather well-studied
language. Please show us how the Germanic languages can be derived from it.

> Proto Slavic language have appeared as mix of Thracian and
> Bulgarian languages.

More nonsense. BTW, how shall we understand the term "Bulgarian languages"?

> So, I think, these facts explains what was way of word GARDAS.

I'm afraid you haven't given us a single _fact_ so far.

Piotr