June 2009 (UTC)

S. Paliga (also of the Urbian theory, which has something to it though) is known for (or was, that file of his that I read was from like 2003, I read it in early '05) wild claims in his etymologies, such as duşman deriving from Thracian, when it certainly derives from Turkish, then from Persian; ancient Greek Dusmenes being a cognate to the Indo-Aryan forms. A very different, and very careful and scientific fellow is Olteanu & his LTDM site, and I'm waiting for him to list the attestations of Byzas/Byzes and whatever  etymologies are considered likely. I found mention in a Greek inscription at Olympia, Greece of a Byzes of Naxos Island , so I don't even know at the moment whether it can safely be said that the name is Thracian. I'm a careful researcher again dude, that buzunara/buze stuff was Paliga's idea. If you're an ex-admin now, that's too bad.   10:55, 12