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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
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> > 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
> >
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>
> just additional information:
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> - there is a Marcodava in Dacia. No idea if *mark here should mean
> horse
> - there is a "mârtsoagã" in Romanian and a "marcina" in Bulgarian,
> words which should be related to horse.
> (Rom. "ts" and Bulg. "c" = German "z")
>
>
> Alex

Alex the exact Romanian word for MARKO is MURG

('don't be afraid' about the u-inside we have
mum&,
Muresh,
Dunare,
sut&
doesn't matter their ultimate origins
)


Marius