alexandru_mg3 schrieb:
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> Yes, we discuss more on the etymology of the words here...
> Could you indicate me where the Thracian rhomphaia is attested on the
> ancient texts, arheological traces etc...
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> Thanks,
> Marius



so far I am informed, Thomacheck does not comment too much about this
word but it remember it when he is writting about Rumbodona in his "Die
Alten Thraker". The word should be meantioned in Stabulo Diomedis ID,
should be somewhere around river Xanthi. He means Rumbodona should be
compared with "romphaia"? A simmilar fonetic construction is to be found
in the name of the city Romphos, westside of Region ,(Theopphyl. Sim,
pag. 237). The scientist compare the word with
the Lithuanian "rumba", "Saum, Einfassung"...
DeƧev does not speak about it in his "Charakteristik der trakischen
Sprachresten"..
Duridanov does not consider it to be a Thracian word either, at least
in the first part of his "Thrakisch-Dakische Studien" the word is not
in the index of the supposed thracian-dacian words..
I am not sure about II Russu since the index of his "Limba
Traco-Dacilor" is made out of Romanian words but.... actually who said
this "romphaia" should be a Thracian word?


Alex