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Thracian
Etymology
Most likely cognate with Tocharian A ri (“city”), Tocharian B rīye (“city”), based on which - probably reflecting Proto-Indo-European *wrih₁-yeh₂.
Noun
*bria
- settlement, town
Descendants
- → Ancient Greek: βρία (bría)
References
- Duridanov, Ivan (1969) Georgiev, V. I., editor, Thrakisch-dakische Studien, I: Die thrakisch- und dakisch-baltischen Sprachbeziehungen (Linguistique Balkanique; XIII, 2) (in German), number 2, Sofia: Verlag der Bulgarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, page 14
Further reading
- 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