From: alex
Message: 27736
Date: 2003-11-27
> Hello All!eimeion > mereu ? ; phoneticaly imposible.
>
> There is an interesting theory in France about proto-ionians (PION).
> I kindly submit my proposal for a discussion of older etyma here,
> starting from some interesting points made by Jean Faucouneau
> (concerning pre-mycenaean Greek.) Despite his pathological self-
> effacing habits, Jean, inter alia, helped decypher the famous
> Pahistos disk.
>
> First a word about formats in my own database:
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> 0002-DARO-M-0300 (eimieion PION mereu DARO, PHRE ROTA)
> ----
> only states that 'eimieion' - by some phonetical metathesis and some
> rotacism - yielded 'mereu' in Dacoromanian, and this is my second
> conjecture, with a score of three in a scale of ten :) Any other
> idea is highly appreciated.