the translation of O' gives
Γολιαθ and he was a
giant
goliam of south Slavic also means big gigantic
so it is obvious the same sound and meaning,
it can be explained by using Summerian and
Hattian
Gal + (h)ath
remember in Greek the word for human is Ανθρωπος
ath+ ro (ru) +-pos
etruscan if Hatian language is also
ath+ru+can
so goliath is Gal+(h)
ath = big man = giant
no Gandalf no Golum
Le Brok
NO,
try again the word Golyam in Cyrillic
голям, it does not mean naked
there is your answer
wielki голям are more close among them than Μεγας Magnus Big Grande madh mets
(except if is relative to Turkish Soyltan Soylu Ulu = noble?)
golyam and wielky could be from Thracian to Slavic?
Yetos, stop this. What you're doing has nothing to do with linguistics. You cherrypick words from languages from quite different parts of the world, from different time slices, and from these you make assumptions which have no basis what so ever. You might as well try to convince us that Albanian is a Native American language, such a claim wouldn't be any more outlandish. Worse yet, you randomly break apart words even if these do not represent compounds. I've called this '
magic word dismantling' before, and you're not the first to do this. It has
nothing to do with linguistic methodology, it's just pseudoscience. The worst part is that you're just confusing other board members, and you regularly jump into topics and start with these wild comparisons that are really completely out of context. For their well-being, I must ask you to stop this.
And frankly, consider yourself hereby officially warned.
Please be aware that I know almost nothing about ancient languages, so I may sound like a bull in a China shop here. But what about these terms that seem to have similiar roots...
1. Baltic and Balkans-- I know that the Baltic was originally Mare Suebian (named after the Suebi tribe)
2. Goliath and Goy--the term used by Jews/and or Yiddish speakers to denote non-Jews
Is there something to these?
The word "Balkans" is of Turkic origin. There's also a "Balkan" mountains in Turkmenistan.
The word "Baltic" derives from the Baltic word for "white" (Latvian "
balts", Lithuanian "
baltas") and has cognates in other branches of Indo-European (all from a common root
*bhel-), including:
- Albanian "
ballë" (forehead)
- Celtic (the Irish festival name '
Beltaine', deity names "
Belisama" and "
Belenos")
- Greek "
phalakos" (bald)
- English "
bale" (antiquated word for 'fire')
- Slavic (Polish "biały", which means 'white' just like in Latvian/Lithuanian, also for instance found in the town name "Bialystok").
But, I might explain here how things work: the basic idea of the comparative method in linguistics is this (I'm trying to explain this as simple as possible):
- a sound X in language A corresponds
regularly to sound Y in language B.
- when a change in a language happens, it affects ALL words in the vocabulary of a language, with no exceptions.
- if there are exceptions, these are governed by their own set of rules (for example, a change happens only at the beginning of a word, etc.)
- languages have no memory of changes that happened to them in the past. That is, if you have the sound A and B changed to sound C and then later changed into a sound D, the language will not distinguish wether sound C arose from A or B.
English | Old Irish | Latin |
father | athair | pater |
fish | íasc | piscis |
foot | ed* | pes (plural "pedes") |
*Note that "ed" has it's meaning changed to "distance" or "interval", which makes sense considering that in English the length unit "foot" exists, which if you think about it has a similar meaning. What you can see is that English (a Germanic language) *f- corresponds regularly to Latin *p- and to a missing letter in Old Irish. If we now compare the word for 'father' in other Indo-European languages (Armenian "hayr", Greek "pateras", Hindi "pita", Persian "pedar"), we find that
*p is the most common and most probably the original condition, which is preserved in most branches of the Indo-European languages, but shifted to *f in the Germanic languages, shifted to *h in Armenian, and disappearing in the Celtic languages.
And that's, in a nutshell, how it works.