Re: The Cimmerians

> I am not a linguist, but might there not be many languages having
> mori or similar for "sea" ("mori" given here
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/PIE%20roots/PIE%20-%
> 20English.htm as a PIE root), and mar- for "dead", so how sure is
> it that this has to be Celtic ?

Looking through Pokorny's IEW, I do not believe that any Germanic
dialects of the period would have had a root *mori- meaning
specifically "sea" (it looks as if PIE *mori would have given a
Germanic *mari-), and only Celtic languages are listed as having a -
u- derivative (*mr-uo) of *mer- "die".

- Chris Gwinn