Re : [tied] Re: DEMETAE - DOBUNNI - DUMNONII = THE sunburnt man/tann
From: Aigius
Message: 59422
Date: 2008-06-28
It is interesting that all three words can be explained through
Lithuanian language. DOBUNNI looks like Lithuanian words DUOBUNAI,
DAUBUNAI, DUBUNAI, which are made with suffix -un from words DUOBE,
DAUBA, meaning BUMP, COOMB, DIP, and from word DUBTI, DUMBA, DUBO,
meaning TO SAG, IS SINKING, WAS SINKING. Can English word BUMP and
Lithuanian word DUMBA be related. Do the B is changed by the D here?
I think we have similar accidents in these words: English word SCARP -
Lithuanian word SKARDIS, English word POT - German word TOPH,...
Place names with DUOB- DUB- are popular in Baltic lands: there was
Baltic land named Duobe, there is river named Dubysa, town named
Duobele,...
Word DUMSUS in Old Prussian language means DARK, Ltvians have
TUMSUS for that, Lithuanians - TAMSUS, Russians - TIOMNYJ,... Word
DUMAI in Lithuanian language means FUME, SMOKE. Russians have DYM for
that. Again - is DUMAI and FUME related?
[Excess quoted matter removed. -BMS]