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K. Dover, Aristophanes Frogs, Oxford, 1993, p. 270: «One of the three who appear now, Pardokas, has a comic name, for παρδείν is the aorist of πέρδεσθαι "fart" ; "Spartokos" was a name recurring in the royal house of the Crimean Bosporus (e.g. D.S. xii.31.1 The supposed /sp/ -> /p/ development...

Dan Dana on Georgiev: “However, he did not do 1 examination of 1 onomastics of ordinary people, which would have confirmed the idea of two separate languages. Another weak point of Georgiev is that he included in the "Daco-Mesian" territory, apart from Dacia and Lower Moesia, most of the Upper...

I think I made it clear in my reply that the linguistic presence of Thracian within Dardanian territory is clear to have occurred in the Roman period (as evidenced by the fact that similar names appear all over the Roman empire as far West as Germania Superior and as far east as Syria) in the...

Dan Dana has made it clear in Onomasticon Thracium that Dardanians are of (mainly) Illyrian origin, p. LXXXII “The Illyrian character of Dardanian onomastics is undoubted and the idea of a Thracian origin or participation (at least, considerable) in their ethnogenesis should be definitively...