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In Spain they call it 'Mal de Ojo' This is what I noticed too, by the way. Here we call it 'kako mati' (lit. 'bad eye'), though sometimes just 'mati' ('eye') The word 'kakos' had multiple meanings already in Ancient Greek like: As a measure of quality: bad, worthless, useless As a measure of...

You seem to have reading comprehension problems.

I don't believe proto-Greeks had anything to do with Vucedol or R1b-Z2013 / Z2015.

tt/ss at least in Attic can descend from *tj, *ḱj, *kj, *kʷj (sometimes) or *dʰj, *ǵʰj, *gʰj, *gʷʰj (regularly) I am not sure what is the mainstream view today but I think it has been said that it represented a [ts] sound of some short. I don't know what the root of the word Moloss-oi would...

If there were 'palatovelars' in PIE the generalized loss of palatalization should have happened independently in Hittite and in centum languages? I'm thinking we can reconstruct a velar and something that triggers the palatalization. One of the triggers would be the vowel that follows. Now, I...

Well, I believe the palatalization before e, i, j existed in all late PIE dialects, at least. People assume that in Attic Greek, for example, K was always pronounced as /k/. But what if it had an allophone /c/ or /kʲ/ in complementary distribution before front vowels? Most likely native...

I'm pretty sure 8/10 Albanians who comment here, think something like: > There weren't Mycenaean settlements in Epirus > Therefore Epirus was Albanian. But there's also DuPidh who thinks also that Dorians were speaking Albanian. I don't understand what Angela meant either, by the way. But why...

I think it was originally the name of an ethnic group. Then the name was used for a geographical region and during Roman times all people from geographical Illyria could have been labeled Illyrians.

Now, concerning more speculative hypotheses, I personally believe that there can be a Trojan connection. 1) The terms Wilusa and the term Illyria, theoretically can have common origin. (that is probably impossible to prove though) 2) The inhabitants of mountainous regions of Sardinia can have...

We don't have any Illyrian texts. The Greek origin myths associate them with Celts but that theoretically can be a result of later Celtic cultural influences. The Greek and Roman sources talk about 'Illyrians proper' or 'properly named Illyrians' etc. From Wikipedia: Illyrians proper, as...

But who said that exactly? If Yetos is correct, afaiu, the Hellenes were a non-Mycenaean group speaking a 'NW Greek' dialect which expanded south. Similar views are based on things Aristotle said among others, about a tribe of Hellenes formerly called Graecoi in Epirus, about 'ancient Hellas'...

Look they reconstruct a root ḱm̥tóm. I will start with my language which has a /k/ If that /m̥/ had shifted to /e/, in Modern Greek the word would have been /ece'to/ (Standard), /etɕe'to/ (Cretan), /etʃe'ton/ (Cypriot). We have /k/ because in Greek, /m̥/ supposedly shifted to a schwa sound...

No population ever identified as 'Mycenaean', apart likely from those who inhabited the city of Mycenae. According to sources like Herodotus, Hellenes were a tribe that expanded from the region of Phthiotis, roughly between Orchomenus and Iolcus (see the maps above to understand where Phthiotis...

Don't present your opinions as facts. The 'satem' / 'centum' thing is based on features some modern languages have on one hand and the reconstructed pronunciation of ancient languages like Attic or Latin. But the thing is that palatalization next to front vowels (e, i,) and the semivowel/glide...

I don't understand your motives. You commented in a thread where t r o l l s like Laberia and DuPidh were commenting. Even that view of yours, that the 'elite-class of peloponnes and crete [...] were the early greekspeakers' can be politically motivated. Either way, even if Epirus wasn't part...

Since you believe that ancient cultures are constructed what you write doesn't make any sense. Also, are you interested in the geographical extent of a 'fashion'? If 'tholos tombs' are the defining characteristic of 'Minoan' & 'Mycenaean' culture, why they are considered different cultures?

I had written a long post and I lost it. First of all I believe that Dardanians of Balkans and Dardanians of Troy were related. That can't be a coincidence. How that is interpreted is a different question. Apart from that you reminded me the following. Τhe word for sun in Modern Greek is ˈiʎo̞s...

From where exactly? Post some relevant texts.

I avoided saying anything about Albanian words. In a previous post I just said that h₂melǵ-eia would give ΑΜAΛΘΕΙΑ in a hypothetical language that shifted h2 > a (like Greek), e > a (at least in some cases) and ǵ > tʰ In Albanian we see a shift ǵ > ð. /ð/ and /tʰ/, though are actually quite...

You may have heard that they don't reconstruct an /a/ sound in PIE (whether that is right or wrong is another question and off topic) /a/ in Greek can descend from a 'laryngeal' *h2 (a 'pharyngeal fricative' according to some) like in the case of ΑΜΕΛΓΩ or from an *n̥, like here, if the...