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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:
>
> Dear Marius,
>
>
> See http://lett.ubbcluj.ro/~echinox/caiete1/23.html for
> more on the origins of Romanian protochronism.
>
> David
>
?????
I am afraid I don't get the idea here. The ecuation is quite simple.
There is a word in a language which means horse; its phonetical
aspect
resemble the outgoing point of discussion ( *mark= horse). More, the
*mar-,*mor-, *mur- root matches the idea of dark colour which leads
to
think the *mVrk/*mVrg is in fact a compositum where *mVr shoud mean
something about dark and the suffix *g/kV should be something related
to an horse or domesticated animal ( if we account the idea of Arnaud
which -interesting- matches the fact that the *k-suffix appears for
almost all domesticated animals in the speach of IE-people):
Pointing about Dacian/Thracian space was intended to show the
possibility of the Germans loaning this word from that part of the
world, explaining why there is a "k" in the German form. What is
protochronistic here and what does it have to do with a national
identity, this is unclear ....
Alex