Re: Res: Res: [tied] Origin of *marko- (was: Hachmann versus Kossack

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-04-15 10:26, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> > > And why should this Celto-Germanic *marko- have to be

connected with

> > > <mori> etc.? A vague similarity involving short words with

commonly

> > > occurring consonants is hardly compelling.
> > > > Piotr
> > ================
> > I suppose this statement applies to 80% of IE cognates.
> >
> > Arnaud
> > ==============
>
> That's why they would mean nothing *as isolated similarities*.

Their

> evidential value depends on the existence of systematic

correspondences

> pervading the lexicon, derivational morphology and inflectional

system.

> It isn't a priori impossible that a Mongolian word spread

westwards,

> passed along by the Scythians, Thracians etc., and ending up in
> Proto-Germanic and Celtic as a word for a 'saddle-horse'. But as an
> etymology, it's just a shot in the dark without any supporting

evidence.

> Where is the attestation of *mar(ko)- in Iranian or Thracian? Who,

when

> and why extended it with a suffix?
>
> Piotr

The attestation for Dacian/Romanian-Subtratum, Piotr is the following:

1. In Romanian the word of that horse is MURG

2. Now a question for you :

What is your timeframe for the Germanic *g¨k shift?

3. Based on your answer to the question 2: you can quickly see that
you will arrive in 'Dacians Times' (I mean the moment when this
word 'entered' in Germanic largely preceeded Decebalus)

Marius