Dacian Swords (Other than the Falx)

[diegis]

Well .... the draco was used by Sarmatians, Yaziges, Marcomani, ... just to name some of those that used it as a battle flag, and remember that the english language has germanic, french, celtic influences, just to name the major ones. I wouldn't go so far as deriving the word "dagger" from "daca", especially since we don't really know how dacians have named themselves and how they have named their weapons in dacian language.

Well, first, about "daca", thats why i asked if someone have a official english dictionary. I know in french, or old french, was something as "dague", or so, and in spanish is "daga". I just read that is coming from vulgar latin, where is mean dacian fighting knife, but i dont know if is the name romans give it because dacians used, or dacians themselves gived that name.
About "draco", i didnt hear that Marcomani use it too. I know about Sarmatian tribes, but i supose was taked from getians ( dacians ), since the oldest "draco" apeared in dacian area, before the aparition of sarmatians.

http://forum.softpedia.com/index.php?ac ... &id=494014

This is a reprezentation of "draco" on a dacian ceramic vessel from around 400 b.C. ( end of V cen. b.C. era ) founded in Budureasca ( Prahova county ), a little south of Carpatian Mountains.
But we know that the totemic cult of wolf existed since neolithic times in the area, Mircea Eliade, one of the most know religions historian saying about wolves statuets and ones called "dancers with wolf masks" finded in the Vinca-Turda culture, if i remember correct.