Re: [tied] Re: Decebalus, help needed

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>> Alex
> ************
> About the first element of <Burebista>, I claim that Alb.
> <burrë> 'man, warrior, ruler' (cf. <Burri i botës> or pl. <burrat e
> botës> 'rulers of the world' , semantically comparable with

We comme again to that ominous (for me) "i" and "e"(pl). Is this in this
case just a simple adjectival "Gelenkartikel" or it is a genitival one ?

> pers. 'gihangir'), again a neuter plural, was very much spreaded
> even in Middle Age. For example, most known aristocratic Serbian
> family bears the name <Burmazoviqi>, replacing /dh/ > /z/ as in many
> place names, derived from Alb. <burr-a-madh> 'big ruler, warrior,
> man'.

a-madh here should mean "the big". There is the same as the Rom. "ãl
mare". In fact I don't wonder since the way to build the sentences are
in Rom. and Alb. almost identical.( of course not in Literary Rom. which
tried to give a Romance look & feel).

> Your claim: "I was afraid to put the Alb word here. The meaning will
> make a sense but it souns like a name give by foreigners to
> Decebalos and not a name given by his folk. Usualy one will call his
> leader "Our Leader" not "Our (folks_name) Leader)" is a argument
> more of others, like Harwey Mayer, that think Romanians were not
> Dacians at all.
>
> Konushevci
> Konushevci

Well, there are a lot who thinks so and maybe they are right. When the
only criteria is the language, they should be right. And right are they
when they mean a such folk has no roots. They could have been everything
and nothing. Thus, maybe they are some ancient Balkan folk or just a mob
of different races and colours ex tuto urbe romanum, thus newcommers in
Balkan.

Alex