Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Gent, Genc, Genthios, or Gentius? I am confused

I am a little bit confused of the morphological suffixes of my name. Perhaps, I have hardly any knowledge on morphological origins of the Illyrian names. I say this because the very people who studied Illyrians, also did extensive research on the ancient Roman and the Greek culture. The puzzle about the written Illyrian was attempted to be centered-resolving towards adopting Greek or Roman letters. At the later age with the advancement of archeology and other historical sciences, these notions have faded and become less acceptable among scholars. At the awake of ethnic nationalisms, particularly against Albanians-descendants of Illyrians (a notion widely accepted by the most revered scholars of the 16 thru 21 century), the early obscure forms of Illyrian origin notions were adopted as a tool to debauch our ancient history.At that time, the Albanology did not exist. Of course, the flesh-eating assault against our ancient history has failed. Nevertheless, we Albanians, the direct descendants of Illyrians should make sure we understand the roots (prefixes, suffixes) before we make such modifications.

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