Re: [tied] Baltic-Slavic disintegration

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29647
Date: 2004-01-15

15-01-04 21:08, alex wrote:

> Alexander, there is no proof for Thracian as being a Satem language
> beside some wild guesses. There is absolutely nothing where we know
> about the meaning of a certain Thracian word for sure and we can connect
> it with a IE root for showing: look , Thracian was a Satem language.
> All the people who sustained Thracian should have been a satem language
> could not deliver the needed proof which shows that. Just assumptions .

Alex, what little we understand about Thracian points unequivocally to
its Satem character, even if you cannot of do not choose to understand
why. I won't bore the list by reviewing the relevant examples once again
-- it's all in the archives. What linguists say about Thracian is at
least based on _some_ evidence, however meagre. What you say about it
(and its alleged relationship to Romanian) is based on nothing at all.

Piotr