Re: [tied] Goths: IE Languages vs Germanic

--- In cybalist@..., tgpedersen@... wrote:

> This, though an aside, might be relevant:
> Tacitus: Germania 1,43,1
> "Behind the back of the Marcomanni and the Quadi the Marsigni,

Cotini,

> Osi and Buri close up. Of these the Marsigni and Buri are similar

to

> the Suebi, while the Gallic language of the Cotini and the

Pannonian

> language of the Osi plus the fact that they tolerate taxes, prove
> that they cannot be Germanic. These taxes are imposed on them

partly

> by the Sarmatians, partly by the Quadi - because they are

strangers.

> The Cotini, even more shamefully, also mine iron ore."
>
> An iron-working people then. *gHeu-d- > *kot-? But that's not

Celtic,

> of course. Still, it's tempting (postulating a local "east Celtic"
> development of stops). But then, as for gH > k and d > t, these
> diverse developments present problems too. And there are probably
> other "east Celtic" material that speaks againt it.
> BTW, why is this iron-mining so shameful? One explanation: With the
> technology then, the work is similar to that of the charcoal-

burners,

> which was a shameful profession also in recent times.
>

I just came across Breton Koad/Coet 'hill'. Hm!

Torsten