Re: Arminius/Hermann

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 14-04-2004 11:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Would you believe it if two brothers were named Louis and John?
>
> But they weren't. They both begin with <segi/e->, a familiar

Germanic

> element.
>

And, again according to Kuhn, the suffix -st- is typical of the
Nordwestblock. And there is plenty of <segest-> names elsewhere. Note
the alliterating names within one family. Jon Galster pointed out a
similar complex around Ringsted (and Sigerslev) on Sjælland.

Torsten