-SILE
yes i agree illyrians are extinct. both slavs and albanians can claim their descendancy from them for the reason that illyria was a tribe including both countries.
but what we're doing here is an approachment to the words those people were using.
as you saw their gods names can be explained through albanian language. and it would wise for you to study a little bit albanian language before you make conclusions.
i've no idea about their explanation in slavic. if someone has something similar in other languages it would be great to post it here.
i've read somewhere that some of their words(not gods names) are related to romanian language. but i've no clue about romanian so i can't judge.
-TARANIS
i'll say to you what i've said to SILE. before you make conclusions study some albanian first.
the funny thing about albanian-illyrian-pelasgian fantasies is that those theories first developed 200-300 years ago and guess what. NOT by albanians, but from linguists from france,germany,austria etc. albanians woke up only after the fall of communism.
i agree that some parts of translation of the steele don't fit even for me that i'm not a linguist. f.e the translation of the ''th'' and ''h''
but despite those parts of the lemnos steele translation the theory of A-I-P is not based only there that's why in albanians eyes it's a theory that could stand.
these are some ''homeriK''(ancient greek better) words, with their meaning in modern greek and modern albanian
M.ALB. -HOMERIK - M-GREEK - ENGL.
are,ara - ARURA - horafi - field
bashke - VASK - vadizo - march
dera - THIRA - porta - door
deti - THETI-S - thalassa - sea
dru - DRIS,DRITI- ksilo - wood
dhe - IDHE - ke (και) - and
ene - ENIMI - endyma - garment
erret - EREVOS - skotos - dark
ethe - ETHIR - piretos - fever
flas - FLIO - omilo - talk
frym - FRIMAO - anapneo - breath
hedh - HEO - rihno - throw
iki - IKO - fevgo - i leave
kal - KELIS TOS - alogo,ippos - horse
korr - KIRO - therizo - harvest
krye - KRITHEN - kefali - head
lehem - LEHO - gienieme - birth
lepur - LEPORIS - lagos - rabbit
lesh - LASIOS - mallia - hair
loz -LIZO - pezo - play
lutem - LITOME - parakalo - i pray
marr - MAR PTO - perno - take
marre - MARGOS - mourlos - lunatic,nuts
mend,mendoj - MENDOHEM - medhome,skeftomai - i think
mi - MIS - pontiki - mouse
ne (neve) - NOI - emis - we
udh- UDHOS - odos -road,street
vane - VAN - pigan - they went
zien - ZEI - vrazi - boil
ETC ETC ETC
and here you have the etymological explanations of the ''greek'' mythology (i doubt about that b/c they were mentioned from homer so they're pre-hellenic)
even though their explanation from greek and ancient greek language are just RUBBISH. for many of them they don't even have an explanation. (artemis,hades etc)
EREBUS- symbolizes darkness, you can find the root from the word ERRET wich means dark in albanian.
URANUS- symbolizes the sky, in modern greek it's exactly the same word (ΟΥΡΑΝΟΣ, look at that!! words should change!!!) you can find the root from here I-VRAN-OS, means the place of clouds.
ATHENA- the goddess of wisdom and inspiration you can find the root in albanian here E THENA which means wise word, the primary root is from the ancient god of egypt THOT
thot in modern albanian means speak,say (un them, ai thot, ato thone,etc)
NEMESIS- the spirit of divine, you can find the root in albanian here NE-MES which means in half, equal pieces
HADES- the god of underworld, the root in albanian from HA=EAT + DES=DIE
ARTEMIS- the goddess of hunting and wildland, the root in albanian from ART=ART + MISH=MEAT
DEMETER- the goddess of harvest and of earth, the root in albanian here DHE= LAND,EARTH + MITER=WOMB (mother earth in few words)
APHRODITE- goddess of beaty,love,desire, the root here, AFER=NEAR,CLOSE + DITA=DAY
HERA- goddess of wind. the root from ERA=WIND
ZEUS- god of sky,weather,thunder roots from ZOT=GOD + DHEU=THE EARTH ''Zot i dhEUSit''
RHEA- daughter of GAIA (=earth) and URANUS (=sky) the root here RE=CLOUDS
i can write about all of them but i don't have to proove anything since you can't speak albanian or greek at least.
and before someone replies about the greek explanations let me say that i've studied in athens and lived there many years so i know everything about the language.and definetely i can say that greek explanations are wrong.WITHOUT MEANING
apart from those explanations from mythology and ancient greek words there are many more things to connect albanian language with pelasgian. it's quite big to say that, and i'm not an expert but so many coincidences and ALL OF THEM WRONG? oh yeah b/c we came from kaukasus 100 years ago,i forgot