C. Darwin Goranson wrote:
> I've seen the Germanic *marthuz attested to, but can't the root be
> taken further? Are there any other potential synonyms in other
> Indo-European groups that could be traceable to a PIE root?
> Relatedly, I've heard that the word "sable' comes from the Russian
> "sobol," but where would that arise from?
keeping in mind that the Dacian Inscriptions can be a false, one could
say what one finds there:
Zabelo=war
zabelie= sword
In Serbian there is "sabie", in Rom. "sabie" (< sabele ?).
There is in "zabelo" and "zabelie" not an "ll" as in Latin "bellum" but
a simple "l". In fact, there is no geminata at all in all the texts.
Slavic, inclusive Russian should have borrowed it from Dacians as well.
This is just a posibility but I repeat myself, one has to keep in mind
these texts are susceptible of not being original Dacians but a late
false.
Alex
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