Re: [tied] etmyology of Germani

Hi Piotr,
didn't Tacitus mention that it was what the Tungri were originally
called? Do we know the etymology of the tribal name Tungri, or whether
they were originally Germanic speakers? That might tell us something.
There's also the Andelusian Germani.

-Michael.

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:17:42 +0200 Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> writes:

> Julius Caesar was the first writer to use the word <germa:ni:>, but
> he wasn't kind enough to tell posterity where he had learnt it. It
> may have been the name of a single tribe, but the trouble is that no
> such tribe is independently attested.

> Piotr
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