Re: Origin of *marko- Margus murg ma'rgas amurg

--- altamix <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> --- In 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

****GK: The point is (among other things) that there
is something strange about this desperate attempt to
connect the very obvious "Marcomanni" ("men of the
march") (scripted by people like Caesar and Tacitus in
Latin) with brown-reddish or whatever horses. And
this is only one of the many instances of the syndrome
David refers to.****

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