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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 27-11-03 17:00, Dr Dan Waniek, MD wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> This of course starts the kook alarm. Who is Jean Faucouneau, and

why

> should we believe he, or anyone, has successfully deciphered the
> Phaistos Disk inscription? I've seen many a

claimed "decipherment", but

> not a single plausible one.
>
> >
> > First a word about formats in my own database:
> > ----
> > 0002-DARO-M-0300 (eimieion PION mereu DARO, PHRE ROTA)
> > ----
>
> What database? And what's the meaning of these lines? They look as
> enigmatic to me as the Phaistos Disk itself.
>
> > 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.
>
> Even Alex realises that no such derivation is possible, whatever
> "eimieion" is.
>
> > A small wink here to Marius - Salutare, si la mai mare! Si tu

vales

> > bene est, ego valeo : )
> >
> > Yours,
> > irismeister (sanity, cutting through Volksetymologie)!
>
> Where's the folk etymology, and where's the sanity?
>
> Piotr

Folk etymology is everywhere these days, that's why we spend hours
lurking into cybalist every day ;O) And sanity? Errr? I wonder...
For what is sanity but a precarious, temporary state which predicts
nothing good :O)
Sincerely,
Dan (irismeister)