Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

Glen Gordon wrote:

>>> In Thracian bolinthos, "aurochs", there is -inthos, but it hardly
>>> can be some kind of participial suffix.
>
> Piotr's response:
>> Etruscan surely exists, but I fail to see why we have to explain
>> Greek toponyms in terms of Etruscan if there are other possibilities.
>
> I'm not seeing a reasonable IE etymology here. Merely a connection
> with a suffix that equally exists in Etruscan. Come to think of it, I
> could be diabolical and suggest a completely Etruscoid etymology,
> *pul-in-tH-, derived from *pul- "to be bright" (hence /pulumcHva/
> "stars"). There, now the ENTIRE word is analyzable in Tyrrhenian, a
> non-IE language group... >:)
>
>
> = gLeN

I doubt about any "pul-" here as well as a certain auerochs o. "boli-"
in "bolinthos" appears to be derivative of "bole-" which means "big
animal"; it is stil not sure if "domestic" animal but if we assume the
word "boalã" in Rom. has something with the thracian to do, then it
should be related to domestic animals.

Alex