- Source: List of Dacian names
Dacians were among the inhabitants of Eastern Europe before and during the Roman Empire. Many hundreds of personal names and placenames are known from ancient sources, and they throw light on Dacian and the extent to which it differed from Thracian.
Anthroponyms
Around 1150 Dacian anthroponyms (personal names) and 900 toponyms (placenames) have been preserved in ancient sources. As far as the onomastic (proper names) of Dacians and Thracians is concerned, opinions are divided. 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 formation and of certain secondary phonetic features in each group. Mateescu (1923), Rosetti (1978) sustain that Thracian onomastic include elements that are common to Geto-Dacians and Bessians (a Thracian tribe). A part of researchers support that onomastically, Dacians are not different from the other Thracians in Roman Dacia's inscriptions. But recently, D. Dana basing himself on new onomastic material recorded in Egyptian ostraka suggested criteria which would make possible to distinguish between closely related Thracian and Dacian-Moesian names and singled out certain specific elements for the latter.
In Georgiev's opinion (1960; 1977) Dacian placenames and personal names are "completely different" from their Thracian counterparts.
Several Dacian names have also been identified with ostracons of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt, i.e. Dadas and Dadazi, Zoutoula, Dotos and Dotouzi, Dieri and Diernais, Diengis, Dida(s), Blaikisa, Blegissa, Diourdanos, Thiadicem, Avizina, Dourpokis, Kaigiza, Dardiolai, Denzibalos (see also Dacian king name Deki-balos), Denzi-balus (attested in Britain), Pouridour, Thiaper and Tiatitis, Dekinais, *Rolouzis, (See Ostraca from Krokodilo and Didymoi)
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Hydronyms
See also
Dacian language
List of Dacian plant names
List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
Davae
List of Dacian towns
List of Dacian tribes
List of Dacian kings
List of historical monuments in Romania
Notes
References
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=Further reading
External links
Ostraca de Krokodilo and full list of names Ostraca de Krokodilo
Inscription on costoboc funeral stone in Rome
Vasile Pârvan, Cetatea Tropaeum. Consideraţii istorice
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Slowakia
- List of Dacian names
- List of Dacian plant names
- Dacian language
- Dacians
- Dacia
- List of reconstructed Dacian words
- List of Romanian words of possible pre-Roman origin
- List of kings of Thrace and Dacia
- List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
- Dacian Cioloș
