Ономастични приноси към етнокултурната история на българските земи в древността
Onomastic Contribution to the Ethnocultural History of the Bulgarian Lands in Antiquity

Summary/Abstract: As a result of an ethymological analysis of the mythonyms satyrs and tityrs which offers new solutions the author has established that these were names of a Thraco-Pelagian origin, constituting ancient loanwords in Old Greek. The first of them has a common root with the Slavonic word svat ‘kin, relative (on the husband’s or wife’s side)’, with the Old Greek word εταίρος ‘comrade in arms, member of a military or socio-political community', with the Latin word sodalis ‘comrade, fellow in arms, member of a social community’, etc. In all these languages the related lexemes originating from the same Indo-European root denoted associations on an age sign, since in the Indo-European peoples the so-called Männerbünde (of the system of sex-and-age organization) historically were extremely early and played a most important role in their social life. The some character has been established also for the term τίτυροι, which notwithstanding its originally very different meaning, later assumed the meaning of ‘members of a pastoral community having a zoomorphic aspect’, in this way again denoting the primitive Männerbünde, but through an allusion to their ritual disguise.

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