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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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

wrote:

> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> >
> > just additional information:
> >
> > - 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

The of that horse arrived from his dark-brown color...

The Dacian attested link is not Markodava (where we have k- not g-)

but the Moesian River MARGUS (today Morava) where the original A-is
attested

see :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Margus

Marius