Published September 28, 2021
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A new translation of the Ezerovo ring: is Thracian finally deciphered?
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A new translation of the Thracian inscription on the Ezerovo gold ring found in 1912. After all these years since its discovery, this is very likely to be the first correct translation of the inscription and hence the first actual decipherment, and if so it gives us more information about the Thracian language than any other Thracian inscription found so far, enabling one to get a better sense of Thracian's actual place among the Indo-European languages.
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Fifth version with important updates: I have an etymology for Roli- now (I did not have an etymology for that component in my previous version) which is of a very high certainty (99% to 100%). I also found very excellent new cognates/very likely cognates for "tiltean", as well as a likely PIE root-word for that word: yet I expect that such a form with such meanings was not exclusive to PIE.
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