If you refer back to the earlier
discussions of this problem on Cybalist,
and in particular
... you will find Chris Gwinn's patient
explanation why this proposition is impossible. Cymru derives from *com-brogia
via pretty recent Brittonic (or rather early Welsh-Cumbric) sound changes. Chris
also explains why the term can't have been coined before that time. A
hypothetical Common Celtic *com-mrogi:, corresponding to the Brittonic term, is
surely much less attractive as the etymology of "Cimmerian" or "Cimbri", let
alone both ;)
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, August
26, 2002 12:49 PM
Subject: [tied] Re:
Cimbri
... But consider this: <Cymru> has an
etymology. Neither <Cimbri> nor <Cimmerian> do. Perhaps we might let
that etymology do service for all three? But that would make the
Cimmerians
Celtic too. Eg:
700 BCE Cimmerians are forced to leave Pontic area north
of the Black Sea.
700 - 500 BCE The Hallstatt culture
500 BCE What was
once called "Celtic Iron Age" (now "Pre-Roman Iron Age") begins in Denmark.
Invasion of Cimbri/Cimmerians?
Question: Is Hallstatt = the
Cimmerians?