sentences:  If the Pelasgians were not Indo-Europeans, the name in this derivation must have been assigned by the Hellenes.Ernest Klein argued that the ancient Greek word for "sea", "pelagos" and the Doric word "plagos", "side" (which is flat) shared the same root, *plāk-, and that "*pelag-skoi" therefore meant "the sea men", where the sea is flat.This could be connected to the maritime marauders referred to as the Sea People in Egyptian records.