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Published June 20, 2022 | Version 1.7
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A new translation of the Ezerovo ring: and the first correct translation

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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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eighth version: this version provides very strong evidence for my translation and for my etymologies of Arakos (=falcon, hawk; and a type of vetch plant), Arakynthos, Tiltean (two new very strong cognates for Tiltean, found in Ancient Greek), including many new etymologies in the Ara Zea section of the work and two new etymologies for those two new cognates in the tiltean section of the work. The other portions of the work do not have new etymologies. In the Ara Zea section, I now discuss many new etymologies that were necessary for my etymology of Arakynthos to be shown to be very likely: so I had to discuss the etymology of a number of words for oak tree, cedar/juniper and chestnut trees, the three kinds of trees mentioned as being present on Arakynthos in our times in abundance: so this work publishes a new etymology of Latin iuniperus (=juniper), Ancient Greek kastana (=chestnut tree), a more detailed look at the etymology of arkeuthos (=juniper) already described by Pokorny et al., a new etymology of the older meaning of PIE *bhegos="beech tree, oak tree, chestnut tree", and quite more. If I found a work like this, I would be quite glad to read it. I address the problems of alternative etymologies and show quite well that the ones I present are most likely correct.

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