Linguistic Question About Getai

[A Terribly Harmful Name]

[maybe not immediately obvious is the basis for their assumption which is that the expected outcome of palatalization (Satem): *mend > menz [the only reason I think of it is because i had to research it to reconstruct Pre-Balto-Slavic ]

Ah, yes, that was a good one. Balto-Slavic was still a cohese group, if we are talking about so long in the past. The wonders of language reconstruction! Just today I was reading about the Schützen-Shooter-Scythian-Saka parallel ;).

Anyhow, that remembers me about another minor detail about the town of Gelonus. It should have wooden walls from the start, IIRC, based on a passage from Herodotus and (maybe) some archaeological excavations, that's it. Though the ethnicity of the inhabitants is disputed, I think they were some sort of proto-Balto-Slavic.

EDIT - Found a source ;):

http://www.customessaymeister.com/cu...ology/8139.htm

ween nomads and Scythian pastoralist communities. He describes a people he calls the Geloni who were descendants of Greek colonists and native who lived around the city. He also describes the city, Gelonus which they built of wood. Some ate what they grew and other produced for the Greek wheat market. Archaeology in recent yeas has uncovered networks of town sites along the middle Dnepr River. These sites include settlements enclosed and fortified with outside cemeteries and industrial works such as granaries, potteries, and smithies for ironworks. The site of Belsk has ramparts which are 21 miles in circumference and is quite possibly the Gelonus of Herodotus. At the site there was a workshop making the type of human skull drinking cups which Herodotus details. (Ascherson 77)

The web isn't the best place but it seems the archaelogical site properly found vestiges of fortifications. I will try doing something less shallow later, maybe.