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    Default Re: Forgery or Legit: Dacian art in lead plates?

    Quote Originally Posted by Daos
    Well don't get me wrong I don't wanna get into a debate here but we are taught that most words in our language come from Latin. Well I like many others have found that in many cases it's clearly the other way around. This has two possible explications: 1 Romans borrowed words from Getai, which is unlikely but not impossible seeing they borrowed military equipment. 2 Both languages come from the same root language and some words in Romanian remain closer to the original words, which I think is more likely. What really is uncanny is the close resemblance that our language has with the ancient Sanskrit. Almost all ancient deity names from India have a corresponding word in Romanian. They mostly mean trivial things but we even got a city named Deva. Which means deity in Sanskrit. It comes from the ancient Dava but still the striking resemblance is there.
    Only problem is that doesn't make much sense linguistically... at all. You even said that they are both Indo-European languages so naturally they have certain similarities, but it is very specious to suddenly feel that it was Latin that borrowed from Getic: especially considering that they had practically no major contact until after Rome became involved with Macedon as a province.

    I would be curious to see the original publication that proposed the theory, but I have a strong feeling that there aren't too many linguistic experts who would agree.
    Last edited by abou; 04-20-2008 at 07:51.

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