[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Marco Moretti wrote:
>
> > [...] Perhaps the protoform of Samsø was more convoluted,
> > but it remains clearly non-IE.
>
> Can anyone explain to me where this disproportionate interest in the
> toponym Samsø comes from? I have heard it before where I circulate,

that

> not all placenames in Denmark are Danish, take just Samsø which is
> definitely a substratum name. How can they know? And how do they

think

> their ultimate source made up his mind?
>
> As names of islands go, I see nothing unusual about Samsø; sure, I

don't

> know what it is, but neither do I know where the names of all the

other

> islands come from (I can handle Langeland, but that's just about

it).

>

I was surprised to learn from placename dictionary that the original
name of Langeland is 'Lavind'

Torsten