Reconstruction:Thracian/bria
Thracian
editEtymology
editMost likely cognate with Tocharian A ri (“city”), Tocharian B rīye (“city”), based on which - probably reflecting Proto-Indo-European *wrih₁-yeh₂.
Noun
edit*bria
Descendants
edit- → Ancient Greek: βρία (bría)
References
edit- Duridanov, Ivan (1969) Georgiev, V. I., editor, Thrakisch-dakische Studien, I: Die thrakisch- und dakisch-baltischen Sprachbeziehungen (Linguistique Balkanique; XIII, 2)[1] (in German), number 2, Sofia: Verlag der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 14
Further reading
edit- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “rīye”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 582