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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Cuadrado" <dicoceltique@...> wrote:
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> hello
> does greek term Phraktos = wall
> exist really ?
> I can't find any links with another IE languages
>
> thanks
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Phraktos (and pharktos) seem to have been rare words. Liddell and
Scott translate as "fenced, protected".
The derivative kataphraktos, on the other hand, was quite common. I
knew it as cataphracts or Latin clibanarii, armored cavalrymen, but L&S
give a general meaning "covered, shut up".
I have no idea of the etymology.
Dan