Re: Albanian Names

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" wrote:

> Here are the list with albanian female names:
> ---------------------------------------------
> url : http://www.kabalarians.com/female/alban-f.htm

[snip]

You should have given only the link, interested people can read
for themselves (netiquette).

> Pre-latin Daco-Thraco Female Names :
> ------------------------------------
> 1. Bardha
> 2. Bardhla
> 3. Besa
> 4. Besiana
> 5. Blendi
> 6. Bora
> 7. Borana
> 8. Brikena
> 9. Bukurije
> 10. Drita
>
> Pre-latin Daco-Thraco Male Names :
> -----------------------------------
> 01. Aziz
> 02. Bardhi
> 03. Bardhyl
>
> And I took with caution ONLY the ones for which we can make direct
> associations with pre-latin daco-thraco names.

I assume you had some criteria to emphatically call these names
"Daco-Thracian" (especially when speaking about "caution"), but
there is little indication about which are those criteria. Out of
derivatives of "(i) bardhë" `white` (having its' correspondent in
Romanian "bardz(u)" `id.`) and "bukuri-a" `beauty` (corresponding
to Romanian "bucurie" `joy'), I fail to see the faintest indication
for their supposed Northern Thracian ancestry. Have you discovered
meanwhile some Dacian glosses supporting your claim?

Cheers,
Marius Iacomi