From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 30967
Date: 2004-02-11
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:<burrat e
>
> >> Alex
> > ************
> > About the first element of <Burebista>, I claim that Alb.
> > <burrë> 'man, warrior, ruler' (cf. <Burri i botës> or pl.
> > botës> 'rulers of the world' , semantically comparable within this
>
> We comme again to that ominous (for me) "i" and "e"(pl). Is this
> case just a simple adjectival "Gelenkartikel" or it is a genitivalone ?
>many
> > 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
> > place names, derived from Alb. <burr-a-madh> 'big ruler, warrior,Rom. "ãl
> > man'.
>
> a-madh here should mean "the big". There is the same as the
> mare". In fact I don't wonder since the way to build the sentencesare
> in Rom. and Alb. almost identical.( of course not in Literary Rom.which
> tried to give a Romance look & feel).will
>
> > Your claim: "I was afraid to put the Alb word here. The meaning
> > make a sense but it souns like a name give by foreigners tohis
> > Decebalos and not a name given by his folk. Usualy one will call
> > leader "Our Leader" not "Our (folks_name) Leader)" is a argumentthe
> > 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
> only criteria is the language, they should be right. And right arethey
> when they mean a such folk has no roots. They could have beeneverything
> and nothing. Thus, maybe they are some ancient Balkan folk or justa mob
> of different races and colours ex tuto urbe romanum, thusnewcommers in
> Balkan.************
>
> Alex