--- In cybalist@..., someone wrote:
> Skagerrak Dutch? Doesn't sound very Dutch to me? What is the
> etymology? ...
Sailors travel about at sea, and thus are liable to carry all sorts of
foreign words about in different directions, and to distort them to
try to make them mean something in their own languages. For example,
the Portuguese word [estibador] found its way by ship to England as
"stevedore". When are the names Skagerrak and Kattegat first heard of?
Sailors' words are not much clue for linguistic history. For example,
Greek and Egyptian having the same word for "sack" means little, after
the amount of sackfuls of goods that were likely carried in ships
between the two language areas down the centuries.
What proof is there of Celts getting as far north as Jutland? I
thought from previous discussion on this list that Scandinavia and
Jutland and perhaps parts of north Germany were PIE-ized from
Finno-Ugrian and the PIE language developed into Germanic there.