Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Greek-and-Roman-Geography-terms-letters-D-E

 


William Smith'in Yunan ve Roma Coğrafyası Sözlüğünden İsimler (1854)

Bu kez bir Türk'ün penceresinden.


D ve E harfleri

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Names from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1854)

This time from the window of a Turk. 


Letters D & E

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Tufts original

Meaning

Turkic word

Meaning

Further info

DAE´DALA

(τὰ Δαίδαλα: Eth. Δαιδαλεύς), a city of the Rhodia, that is, the Peraea in Caria, or a small place, as Stephanus B. says (s. v.), on the authority of Strabo; and also a mountain tract in Lycia.

DAW/TAW/TAU

mountain


DAIX (Δα̈́ιξ).

DAIKOS: URAL RIver

YAYIK

Ural river

DAYIK: Altic/Turkic Water God

Dana

also called Thyana or Thiana, and originally Thoana, from Thoas, a Thracian king

tana/dana: calf 

maybe dan-: to consult

>DANISMAN: the advisor

Asmabaeon (from the issue with Dana)

a fountian, spring, well > Zeus called himself Asmabaeos

Asma-: to spring high, to get high

bay: rich, much, 

Asmabay: it that springs high?

Danai (Drom the King Danaus)

Look at „dana“ above




Dar

A small river of Carmania,

dar

narrow 


DASCY´LIUM(ΔασκύλιονΔασκυλεῖον, Dascylus: Eth. Δασκυλίτης).

everal Asiatic cities called Dascylium

Daz: bald, KIR: mountainous area

there is a town in Turkey called DAZKIRI


DASSARE´TAE

The W. part of Dassaretia was a contrast to the E., consisting entirely of lofty and rugged mountains, intersected by branches of the river Apsus

tau: Mountain (Tašgaru: outside)

su: water (APSUS)

2 Turkic words in a sentence?

Daulis

and is mentioned in later times as a town almost impregnable in consequence of its situation upon a lofty hill ( “Daulis, quia in tumulo excelso sita est, nec scalis nec operibus capi poterat,” Liv. 32.18).

tau: mountain

Tauli: he/they who live/s on the mountains


Desudaba

a place in Maedica of Macedonia,

oba

camp, dwelling place


DOCIDAVA

A Dacian town

TOKI: to web 

oba/ova: camp, dwelling place

-d- a puffer letter between 2 vocals

DOLI´ONIS

the “inhabitants of Cyzicus,” and he adds that Hecataeus called them Dolieis: they were also called Dolionii.

taluy: see

Like delay


Doloncae

a Thracian tribe, which seems to have belonged to the race of the Bithynians

Tolun: a Turkic dynasty after TOLUN (Full (Ay: moon))



Domanitis

Landschaft in Paphlagonien, die der Fluss Amnias (Gök Irmak) durchströmt,

doman/Tuman/duman

fog

<PTurk dum/tum: cold, flu

Druzipara 

A town in Thrace

tur-: so stand up; not to move

ara: space in between


Dumnissus

a place in Gallia

dum/tum: fog

su: water   

foggy place where you have a river?

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Edebessus/Idebessus

was an ancient city in Lycia. It was located at the foot of the Bey Mountains to the west of the Alakır river valley

tepe: hill?

su: water   


Eresus/Eressus

was a city of Lesbos, situated on a hill, and reaching down to the sea

yer: place/earth/land

su: water   




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