Linguistics discussion (split from new factions thread)

[Cartaphilus]

False,it comes from Baal the old semitic Baal(מלך) that also gave the Carthaginian god Baal-saphôôn.

Nop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart

I know that wiki is not a great source but is the only one I have now at my disposition.
But I am sure about that.

[Ibrahim]

Nop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart

I know that wiki is not a great source but is the only one I have now at my disposition.
But I am sure about that.

I just came back from a reading, and I confirm yor source, Cartaphilus.

[Viking_Wårlord]

Nop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart

I know that wiki is not a great source but is the only one I have now at my disposition.
But I am sure about that.

I though you were talking about the word meaning 'master',not 'king'!
Sorry,my mistake,you're right.

[Cartaphilus]

I though you were talking about the word meaning 'master',not 'king'!
Sorry,my mistake,you're right.

No problem, man, you were right with Baal of course, he's the "Lord", the "Master"...

[ziegenpeter]

Here we go Kuningaz: As a good introduction I'd advice you to read
Wilhelm Schmidt: Geschichte der deutschen Sprache
Astrid Stedje: Deutsche Sprache gestern und heute

[Kuningaz]

Ok thanks, once I'm back in Austria I'll buy them

[Elmetiacos]

The thread is not dead, only stunned. Since it all started with some of us pointing out how hard it would be to reconstruct Dacian and/or Thracian, here are some interesting snippets.
1. The (Latinised) Getic personal name Zalmodegicus: look at the second element in the name. Surely it must be a cognate of Celtic *dexs- which appears in Lugudeccas on an Ogham stone "of the servant of Lugh" - that means Zalmodegicus is "servant of Zalmoxis".
2. Did Daco-Thracian turn Indo-European M into B? Bassaris is a Greek word for the fox skin worn by Dionysos which doesn't seem to have an etymology in Greek. Bassareus is also supposed to have been the Thracian version of the god. Bendis was the Thracian moon goddess. Both these make sense as PIE roots if we turn the Bs into Ms: *moiso- meaning the hide of an animal and *meh1ns- meaning the moon...

EDIT: bah - Duridanov's Thracian vocabulary (http://www.kroraina.com/thrac_lang/thrac_5.html) is full of words that kept the M as M...

[Subotan]

bredas ‘pasture-ground’
dentu- ‘clan, tribe’
desa(s), disa(s) ‘deity, god’
ermas ‘fierce, mad’
esvas (ezvas) ‘horse’
mezēna ‘a horseman
skaplis "axe"
suras ‘strong, brave; a hero’
taru- ‘spear’

These look particularly useful to us. But I laughed out loud when I saw

stra (from an earlier *strava) ‘ torrent’

Hehe, file-sharing Dacians...