Reconstruction:Thracian/bria

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Thracian

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Etymology

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Most likely cognate with Tocharian A ri (city), Tocharian B rīye (city), based on which - probably reflecting Proto-Indo-European *wrih₁-yeh₂.

Noun

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*bria

  1. settlement, town

Descendants

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  • Ancient Greek: βρία (bría)

References

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  • 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

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  • 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