Re: mereu 0002-DARO-A-0000 (eimieion PION mereu DARO)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Dr Dan Waniek, MD" wrote:

> There is an interesting theory in France about proto-ionians
> (PION).

That's nice. So what's the theory about?!

> 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.

Better "Phaistos". Who is J.F., BTW?

> First a word about formats in my own database:
> ----
> 0002-DARO-M-0300 (eimieion PION mereu DARO, PHRE ROTA)
> ----

I ignore what is your db about, but reading your own cypher, I
can't prevent myself to think at SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS.
Where is to be found the word "eimieion" and what does it mean?

> only states that 'eimieion' - by some phonetical metathesis and
> some rotacism - yielded 'mereu' in Dacoromanian,

From which language? Rhotacism of what exactly? What arguments
do you have?

> and this is my second conjecture,

There is also a first one?!

> with a score of three in a scale of ten :)

... estimated on which basis?

> Any other idea is highly appreciated.

Romanian loanword "mereu" does reflect a Hungarian word and it's
a matter of very little interest on a list dedicated to IE issues.
If you have a better proposal, it would be of great help to stick
to normal English (i.e. forget about your favorite db format and
make your point in plain text, no encoding).

> A small wink here to Marius - Salutare, si la mai mare!

Is that me?! I strongly doubt... but thanx anyway. :-)

> Si tu vales bene est, ego valeo : )

"si vales, bene est; ego valeo" sounds better.

> Yours,
> irismeister (sanity, cutting through Volksetymologie)!

Cheers,
Marius Iacomi