The Ossetic word xox "mountain" is not related rather to the Persian koh or kuh "mountain"? Both Ossetic and Persian are Iranic languages. Francisc ... when ...
Hi, May I comment that in the middle ages the name of the Getic people (Dacian, Wallackian, Romanian)was transformed into "gothic": IORDANIS - DE ORIGINE...
I'm gonna go back and check out that chapter again. Also thanks for finding Targa. I had assumed it was a reconstruction. Also, a lil off subject: Are there...
... Good question, Ingemar, No, the origin of must be older and point at something more siginificant than living along flowing water. For a long time I kept...
Arianism was a Heretical sect according to the Church of Rome. Polycarp or Irenaeus punched him in the face at one of the church councils. One person anyway...
Hi Ualarauans, thing is little bit more difficult. Slavomar is really archaic, we can say "Czech-Slovak form", even though in modern language it is used modern...
Hi everybody, In today Romanian, Kogaion is not used anymore, but Ceahlau; moreover the name of the mountains, the Carpatians are approaching the IE...
... 7500 years seems a _very_ long time for a tribal name of this sort to persist essentially unchanged, especially given the frequency with which we see...
Much later. Nicholas of Myra punched Arius at Nicaea in 325. ... The label gets thrown around a lot in the fourth-century debates. However, calling all critics...
Michael Erwin
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Aug 2, 2006 4:40 pm
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Agreed, 7500 years is too long. I'm not familiar with Gotlandic archaeaology. Is it possible that many settlers came from the Vistula to the island in the...
Michael Erwin
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Aug 2, 2006 4:45 pm
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This is a nice interpretation. By using a Thracian connection (as reflected in today's Romanian) the significance of the name of the Gets is included in the...
Hi everybody. Let me explain the names by using the thracian connection: Thaurisind = Taurus sunt -I am a Bull ( both like in Latin) Taurismund = Taurus mânz...
APUD http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/sha/max.shtml MAXIMINI DUO IULI CAPITOLINI I..... 5 Hic de vico Threiciae vicino barbaris, barbaro etiam patre et matre...
If Gothic is Getic (Dacian) then the codices Argenteus, Carolinensis A and Carolinensis B are what language?...
Michael Erwin
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Aug 2, 2006 10:46 pm
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or maybe the thracians adopted the gothic lingo......i thought alot of peoples including the huns had spoken or adopted goth as their language...also i thought...
i mean attila the hun...if im not mistaken , attila means little father in gothic......guthiek ist batiste, wan qath in ainfalth wigs..... dciurchea...
Hi Michal ... though in ... But Jaromar is ... about its ... in the "Great ... For the ex-DDR territory being a Slavo-Germanic contact area throughout the...
Hails Michael. ... The other way around, I think, is more logical. To begin with, the Germanic archeaological record on Gotland is older than the Vistula ...
However, there was an Eastern Germanic tribe named Victoali (or Victofali, Victophali, Victobali), mentioned in connection with other Eastern Germanic tribes...
This event of 7500 years ago was put in connection by some scientists with the Biblical Deluge... But I agree that 7500 years is a much too long time for an...
Michael is right. If Jordanes and others made the Gets to be Goths (and Dacians to be Danes...), we should not fall into the other extreme and make all the...
... The Romanian word "tau" means in fact "mountain lake" and is in general considered as being of Hungarian origin: tó = lake (a word of Finno- Ugrian...
... I saw also elsewhere this interpretation of the expression "get-beget" and was tempted to admit it, but the current opinion is that it is of Turkish...
... other ... Diaconus ... The names Uictouali and Taifali (< Taiuali?) seem Celtic, and these tribes might have been rather East-Celtic (relative to Boii) and...
My understanding was that Gothic 'athana' meant 'year.' 'Juleis' (?) would be a two-month season around November-December, and 'wintrus' would (presumably) be...