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

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

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > alexandru_mg3 pisze:
> >
> > > Shortly: the o in Marco is not Germanic
> >
> > A silly argument, just showing how little you know about these

things.

> > When Germanic compound names were Latinised, the "linking"

thematic

> > vowel of the first member was substituted by -o- almost

invariably, as

> > in Theodoricus < *þeuda-ri:k-, Odoacer/Odovacar < *auþða-wakra-,

and

> so
> > on, and so forth. The same in tribal names: would you say that

the -o-

>
> > in <Langobardi> is not Germanic?
> >
> > Piotr
>
> Piotr, I don't know who is the silly one here
>
> We have to other attested towns :
>
> ONE IN DACIAN :
> Marcodava
>
> ANOTHER IN CELTIC:
> Marcodurum
>
> AND
>
> A GERMANIC TRIBE
> Marcommani
>
> ALL THESE WERE LATINIZED changing an o- in the middle with an a- ?
>
>
> SO PLEASE BE SERIOUS HERE....
>
> Marius

Sorry please reda:
"changing the a- in the middle with o-"

Marius