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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
>
> I guess we don't need to speak now about the credibility of Jordanes
> since I wish just to point to an linguistic issue.
> I am not aware if somewhere else is found the expresion "leges
> Bellagines".
> Questions:
> - is Jordanes the first which speaks about these Leges Bellagines?
> - is the word to divide as "bellagi" ( pl. form)+ suff. "-nes"?
> - is in this case 'bellagos' the same word as Greek "pelagos"?
> - does this word make any sense in Latin or Greek?
> - is the "bellag" a phonetically possible candidate for
> slavic "valax"?
>
How about, with my favorite root,
*λáN-aN- -> *dláÅg-aÅ- -> *dlág-an- -> belág-in-
cf.
Pokorny
'dhl.gh- "debt, dues".
OIr dligim "am entitled to smt., deserve",
MWelsh dlyu, with epenthet. vowel dylyu "to owe",
Corn. dylly id.,
MBreton dellit id.,
OIr dliged n. "duty, law, justice" (*dhl.ghito-m),
Welsh dled, dyled,
MCorn. d(y)lyet f. "duty",
further dlit "merit" (*dhl.ghÄ«tÄ);
Gothic dulgs "debt";
OChSl dlÑgÑ "dues",
Russ. dolg,
Serbo-Croat dûg (gen. dûga),
Polish dÅug,
Czech dluh id.
Gothic dulgs and the Slavic words are presumably ultimately related.'
and also I think
ON lo,g pl. "law" is from *dlagu- <- *λaN- ,
together with all the words Pokorny has under *legh-
cf.
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Torsten