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[11] [12] For example, Greek and Latin had no dedicated graphic signs for phonemes such as č, ġ, ž, š and others. Thus, if a Thracian or Dacian word contained such a phoneme, a Greek or Latin transcript would not represent it accurately. [13] This could result in the wrong cognate being selected to decipher the Dacian name.
According to Crossland (1982), the evidence of names from the Dacian, Mysian and Thracian area seems to indicate divergence of a 'Thraco-Dacian' language into northern and southern groups of dialects, but not so different as to rank Thracian and Dacian as separate languages, There were also the development of special tendencies in word ...
Ptolemy gives a list of 43 names of towns in Dacia, out of which arguably 33 were of Dacian origin. Most of the latter included the suffix 'dava', meaning settlement or village. But, other Dacian names from his list lack the suffix, for example Zarmisegethusa regia = Zermizirga, and nine other names of Dacian origin seem to have been Latinised ...
According to Romanian historian Ion I. Russu , there are supposedly over 160 Romanian words of Dacian origin, representing, together with derivates, 10% of the basic Romanian vocabulary. [ 1 ] Below is a list of Romanian words believed by early scholars to be of Dacian origin, which have also been attributed to other origins.
Dacology investigates the range of ancient Dacian culture (language, literature, history, religion, art, economics, and ethics) from c. 1000 BC up to the end of Roman rule in the 4th-7th centuries. It is directly subordinated to Thracology , since Dacians are considered a branch of the Thracians by most mainstream research [ 1 ] and historical ...
Roman head of a Dacian of the type known from Trajan's Forum, AD 120–130, marble, on 18th-century bust. The Dacians (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ən z /; Latin: Daci; Ancient Greek: Δάκοι, [1] Δάοι, [1] Δάκαι [2]) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.
Dacian toponyms, hydronyms and tribe names - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors. - Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Book 7, Chapters 3 and 6, are about Dacia, Thracia, Danube region (Southeastern Europe).
Mopsus, killed Myrine, an amazon queen; Peirous, a Thracian war leader [5] killed by Thoas the Aetolian; Rhesus of Thrace, died in the Trojan War [6] Cisseus, father of Theano, the wife of Antenor; Diomedes of Thrace, Giant that ruled over the Bistones; Lycurgus, of the Edoni; Oeagrus, father of Orpheus and Linus; Orpheus [7] of the Cicones