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This is really interesting. Now read this:The Romanian word for hair is par,which comes from Latin pilus,"a normal hair",while the Albanian has flok,Latin floccus,"tuft".
Let's face it,many Dacian and Thracian warriors are described as pretty tuft,no wonder that Decebalus was not making a special case here
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/floccus
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pilus
https://books.google.ro/books?id=Mn...AQ#v=onepage&q=dacians thracians tuft&f=false
[h=2]English[/h][h=3]Etymology[/h]Borrowed from Latin floccus.
[h=3]Noun[/h]floccus (plural flocci)
- (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.[1]
[h=3]Noun[/h]floccus m (genitive floccī); second declension
[h=4]Descendants[/h]
- Albanian: flok
[h=2]English[/h][h=3]Etymology[/h]From Middle English tuft, toft, tofte, an alteration of earlier *tuffe (> Modern English tuff), from Old French touffe, tuffe, toffe, tofe (“tuft”) (modern French touffe), from Late Latin (near Vegezio) tufa (“helmet crest”), from Germanic (compare Old English þūf (“tuft”), Old Norse þúfa (“mound”), Swedish tuva (“tussock; grassy hillock”)), from Proto-Germanic *þūbǭ, *þūbaz; akin to Latin tūber (“hump, swelling”), Ancient Greek τῡ́φη (tū́phē, “cattail (used to stuff beds)”). Same as tuff.
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It is documented that Albanians until the XX century used to shave their head and keep this this tufë flokësh, bunch of hairs in the back of their head:Let's face it,many Dacian and Thracian warriors are described as pretty tuft,no wonder that Decebalus was not making a special case here
Let's solve this unknown etymology ,since it's definitely not a hard one:
copil,a child,comes 100% from Latin copulo,copulare.
In Albanian,this word is a borrowing, because the original meaning, a bastard,is preserved,while the further development of the Romanian sense implies its use as a slang,common to the urban speech.
Phonetics doesn't cause too many problems either,we do have Romyliana,instead of Romuliana,in the Procopius' list.
The Romanian,Spanish and Catalan term for the male sexual organ underwent a similar development,because it's coming from chicken.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/copulare#Italian
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/4B*.html
The Vlachs in Croatia mostly came in the Turkish era, most of them are today's Serbs but part of them are and Croats. We see that in presence of not of Slavic origin E1b V13 subclades, R1b Balkan type subclades and part of I2a Dinaric North subclades. Vlachs haplotypes are probably J2 and some R1a subclades. They are very mixed and different origin, but in my opinion the majority is still Albanian origin or originally Illyrian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromanians#Genetic_studies
https://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml
Serbs from Croatia were not Vlachs.Vast majority of Serbs came to Croatia from eastern Herzegovina and old Herzegovina (western Montenegro).Autosopmally Serbs from Bosnia and Croatia shifted more northern than Serbs from Serbia, which means that they have less Vlach and more Slavic ancestry than Serbs from Serbia.
Original Vlach homeland is modern Albania, northern Greece and Macedonia [video]www.imninalu.net/Myths_files/Vlach-expansion.jpg[/video]
Until 12th century there was no any Vlachs in Wallachia (southern Romania).
Vlachs migrated from from Albania, Macedonia and northern Greece to present day southeastern Serbia and western Bulgarian in 9th and 10th century, and from there they migrated in modern southern Romania from 12th to 14th century.
In Wallachia Vlachs assimilated local Slavs, Cumans and Pechenegs and from that mix were created Vlacho-Romanian nation.
There was no Vlach migration from the south side of the Danube to the north side of the Danube...
The Vlachs are the by product of the Daco-Roman symbiosis after the Romans conquered Dacia. After the Romans retreated because they couldn’t control the region anymore some of them went with them, but many remained. So, in my opinion, the Vlachs from the south of the Danube have their ancestry in Dacia also.
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Original Vlach homeland is modern Albania, northern Greece and Macedonia
We in Croatia do not have historical records that Serbs come to Croatia except for a couple of records, but there are also mentioned with Vlachs.
For now there is no genetic evidence that anyone comes from eastern Herzegovina and old Herzegovina (western Montenegro) to Croatia. In the eastern Herzegovina and western Montenegro also existed and Croats and it is possible that this Croats come to Croatia but as I say there is no genetic evidence for this migration.
Regarding Croatian Serbs and more northern autosomally it is possible that this is Croat influence or people who have gone to Orthodoxy because part of Croatian Serbs has R1a subclades that are more typical for Croats, although some other influence is possible.
For now it's my personal opinion and in the future genetics will tell the truth.
Not only are genetics showing that Croatia's Serbs came from Eastern Hercegovina and NW Montenegro, we also have records of these migrations.
The historical picture is becoming clearer with the majority of Serbs in Croatia descended from the Banjani, Drobnjak, and Piper tribes, but not from Old Montenegro nor the Seven Mountain Tribes of Eastern Montenegro.
The route taken by these people was from their base towards Ozren in Bosnia, then West towards today's Mrkonjic-Grad and Bosanski Petrovac, from which they then went into all four cardinal directions.
None of these were Croatians. Some of these were of Vlach stock but were already Slavicized.
As for Croatian migrations after the Ottoman Empire's takeover of today's Bosnia, the Bunjevci settled in Lika and the Croatians of Eastern Hercegovina (around Neum, Popovo Polje) moved to the Dubrovnik region while Croatians in West Hercegovina and West Bosnia criss-crossed over into Dalmatia and vice versa depending on the political/security/economic situations of the time of their movements, which were several.
We have a record of the arrival in the late 15th century of actual Vlachs showing up in the Cetina region who were legally and ethnically differentiated from local Croats and Serbs, spoke their own language, but were Catholic unlike the Orthodox Vlachs/Serbs who began showing up.
None of these were Croatians.
Regarding Vlachs there are two theories.
First, they are one of the four branches of the Romanian nation. They are from today Romania and during the middle age they migrated from their homeland. For example Thessaly during the middle age was called Great Wallachia. When Albanians migrated from Epir in Thessaly during the middle age they don't meet Greeks but Vlachs. Basically Dacians.
Second, Vlachs are latinized populations of Epir and from this region they migrated in the direction of Romania. Basically Illyrians.
One thing we know about them for sure. An important British scholar, Τ. Winnifrith(if i am not wrong he is a Vlach) has proven that Vlachs before latinization were not Greeks. And this conclusion of Winnifrith is very important in both cases.
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