Re: Thracian, etnonym's etymology

I think that name can be related to Lithuanian word TRAKAS, meaning
GLADE, UNDERBUSH, UNDERGROWTH. Also compare with name Trakai the old
capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
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> What would be the etymology of Thracia (place) and Thrax (people)?
Is it the place name after the people, or vice versa (chicken-egg
dilemma)?
> The Thracians appeared in Attic myths as a kind of fictional
northern people (or pre-people), linked to Boreas and Ares). Could be
thrax mean something like "north"?
> Could be do:ros and thrak- two divergent (dialectal) forms of the
same pre-Greek word? If we see do:ros as *dorHos, thrak- could be a
cognate, from an older proto-form *drx, *trx-, *Trk- (T = th).
> a- ANother possibility is relate them to Anatolian root *tarXu-
(cf. Tarhunza, Tarquinius, Tarkhon).
> b - Alternatively, Do:ros could be a "Macedonoid" cognate of PIE
(dHersos, dHorso. dHrsu "strong, bold, dareful")
> c- or... maybe they came from root *dHwer- "door, outside",
something like the "outside people" ?
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> JS Lopes
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