List of Dacian names

Dacians were among the inhabitants of Eastern Europe before and during the Roman Empire. Many hundreds of personal names and placenames are known from ancient sources, and they throw light on Dacian and the extent to which it differed from Thracian.

Anthroponyms

Around 1150 Dacian anthroponyms (personal names) and 900 toponyms (placenames) have been preserved in ancient sources. As far as the onomastic (proper names) of Dacians and Thracians is concerned, opinions are divided. According to Crossland (1982), the evidence of names from the Dacian, Mysian and Thracian area seems to indicate divergence of a 'Thraco-Dacian' language into northern and southern groups of dialects, but not so different as to rank Thracian and Dacian as separate languages, There were also the development of special tendencies in word formation and of certain secondary phonetic features in each group. Mateescu (1923), Rosetti (1978) sustain that Thracian onomastic include elements that are common to Geto-Dacians and Bessians (a Thracian tribe). A part of researchers support that onomastically, Dacians are not different from the other Thracians in Roman Dacia's inscriptions. But recently, D. Dana basing himself on new onomastic material recorded in Egyptian ostraka suggested criteria which would make possible to distinguish between closely related Thracian and Dacian-Moesian names and singled out certain specific elements for the latter.

In Georgiev's opinion (1960; 1977) Dacian placenames and personal names are "completely different" from their Thracian counterparts.

Several Dacian names have also been identified with ostracons of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt, i.e. Dadas and Dadazi, Zoutoula, Dotos and Dotouzi, Dieri and Diernais, Diengis, Dida(s), Blaikisa, Blegissa, Diourdanos, Thiadicem, Avizina, Dourpokis, Kaigiza, Dardiolai, Denzibalos (see also Dacian king name Deki-balos), Denzi-balus (attested in Britain), Pouridour, Thiaper and Tiatitis, Dekinais, *Rolouzis, (See Ostraca from Krokodilo and Didymoi)

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Toponyms

Hydronyms

See also

• Dacian language
• List of Dacian plant names
• List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
• Davae
• List of Dacian towns
• List of Dacian tribes
• List of Dacian kings
• List of historical monuments in Romania

Notes

References

Ancient

Modern

Further reading

External links

• Ostraca de Krokodilo and full list of names Ostraca de Krokodilo
• Inscription on costoboc funeral stone in Rome
• Vasile Pârvan, Cetatea Tropaeum. Consideraţii istorice

1. List of Dacian plant names
2. Dacian language
3. Dacians
4. Dacia
5. List of reconstructed Dacian words
6. List of kings of Thrace and Dacia
7. List of Romanian words of possible pre-Roman origin
8. List of ancient cities in Thrace and Dacia
9. Dava (Dacian)
10. List of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia
11. List of country-name etymologies
12. Dacian warfare
13. Classification of Thracian
14. Decebalus
15. List of Dacian towns and fortresses
16. Sarmizegetusa Regia
17. Roman Dacia
18. Carpi (people)
19. Moesia
20. Burebista