Etymology of the word Pelasgian

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Pelas + Gi = City dwellers

Since the word Pelasgia means Land of Cities. When Pelasgus built
the first cities in Arkadia he took the name Pelasgus and because they now
lived in cities the people became Pelasgians.

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Pelasgos, who is said to have built the
first city in Greece at Lukosovra, from which the others on the mainland
learned how to build cities. The Arkadians may therefore have been the first
"architects" of Greece (arxi-tekton = Arkas' stonemasons).

Pelasgos appears to have done was establish sanctuaries of Zeus, during
 which the time, all of his people were eating oak-fruit, and like the
 Selloi, probably slept on the bare ground beneath oaks while going about
 with unwashed feet.

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[jackrussell]

Herodotus wrote: «What language the Pelasgians used I cannot say for certain, but if I may conjecture from those Pelasgians who still exist… they spoke a barbarian language» .

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Pelas + Gi = City dwellers

Huno-aVars = Nose-Hangers

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Herodotus wrote: «What language the Pelasgians used I cannot say for certain, but if I may conjecture from those Pelasgians who still exist… they spoke a barbarian language» .

...and then he goes on to say that Hellenic was a dialect of Pelasgian.

See my thread "The Hellenes and the Greeks"

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...and-the-Greeks

[jackrussell]

...and then he goes on to say that Hellenic was a dialect of Pelasgian.

See my thread "The Hellenes and the Greeks"

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...and-the-Greeks

So you are speaking a Barbarian language , no ?

[johen]

Herodotus wrote: «What language the Pelasgians used I cannot say for certain, but if I may conjecture from those Pelasgians who still exist… they spoke a barbarian language» .

And the barbarian language was similar to Sumerian.

“Prehistorically, the Sumerians were not aboriginal to Mesopotamia. Their native hearth is unknown. Speaking an agglutinative tongue showing affinities, on one hand, with the Uralo-Altaic languages (Balto-Finnish, Hungarian, Volgaic, Uralien, Samoyuedic, Turkish, Mongolian, and Eskimo) and, on the other hand, with the Dravidian tounges of India, the Pelasgian of pre-Homeric Greece, Georgian of the Caucasus, and Basque of the Pyrenes, they had arrived apparently c.3500 B.C. to find the river lands already accupied by an advanced Neolithic, farming and cattle-raising population known to science as the Ubaidian (also, Proto-Euphratean), [...].” (Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Dimension, New World Library, 2008, p.122)"

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And the barbarian language was similar to Sumerian.

No. The Pelasgians were an Arcadian tribe and spoke Arcadocypriot Greek. The language was not related to Sumerian.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadocypriot_Greek

The word Pelasgi means City Dwellers and Herodotus deliberately distinguishes it from sea coast dwellers since these are specifically called Aigialeans.

Pelasgians also were one of the Sea People. All the tribes which occupied Greece spoke Greek related dialects since they all knew that Pelas meant City, Gi meant land and Gialon meant Sea and Akri meant Edge since all used combination of this words as their tribal names.

The similarities between the names Hellenes, Enhelenes and Aigaileans and the location of these tribes makes it pretty certain that Hellenes was a corruptiom of the name Aigaileans. The further north you go the more the name is corrupted. The name "Pelasgialeans" was probably the original name of all these tribes and is probably the root of the name Palaichthon (Pel-Enhelene) the father of Pelasgus.

In modern Greek this become Pelasgi Leon or "People of the (land) of cities". In Egyptian the term is Pelast which in Hebrew is Philistines which resolves to "Polis ites" or "People of the cities".

The Pelasgi were everyone who dwelled in cities. The Hellenes according to Herodotus were nomadic so would not have qualified as Pelasgi except for the Ionians who were the Aigialean Pelasgi. Aigialea mean shore in Greek and Aigialeans means sea coast dwellers.

The names Anglia (ENGLAND) and Yalta also derive from Greek Aigialea.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE...BB%CF%8C%CF%82

The Old English were in fact speaking Ancient Greek and in fact the name for England or Agglia (or Anglia) is EXACTLY the same as the old name for Greece which was "Aigelia". Thus the so-called Angles were actually Ionian Greek colonists who as Herodotus tells us were called Aigelian Pelasgi.

The Aigelian Pelasgi spoke Arcadocypriot Greek but after the Ionians (who spoke a different dialect hellenic rather pelasgian greek) joined them they were named Ionians, after their eponymous founder Ion.

In fact the name John which is derived from the Greek name Ion as is preserved in the Scandinavian spelling of Jon and was spread thought Europe by the Myceneans who colonised Italy, Spain and went as far Hyperboria as well as becoming the rulers of Palestine. Thus Ion also became Juan (Wan), Wayne, Jean, Gene, Euan, Ioannis, Giannis, Janus and derives from the ancestral the name of the Greeks themselves who were known as Aigialean Pelasgi before the term Aigialean meaning Sea People was corrupted by the Hittites in Asia-Minor into Ahhiyawa which later became Yunni the namer by which the Greeks where known by the Egyptians and Persians.

[Scholarios]

It means 'flatlanders" or "sea men" or something to that effect. Nothing about cities. It's related to Balto-Slavic Polje and English plain.