Re: [tied] Re: Arminius/Hermann

15-04-2004 10:37, tgpedersen wrote:

> And, again according to Kuhn, the suffix -st- is typical of the
> Nordwestblock.

But *-ist- is found in Germanic too, most obviously as the superlative
suffix, but also in derived nouns, such as the 'horse' word *xangistaz ~
*xanxistaz. Besides, it isn't clear that Segestes contains such a
suffix; the PIE ancestor of <Sieg> was an es-neuter (*ség^Hos, *seg^Hes-
'victory', cf. Skt. sáhas-, Av. hazah-, Gothic sigis, all of them
neuters), so the <-s-> may well belong to the base; and the word may be
a truncated compound rather than a suffixed formation.

> And there is plenty of <segest-> names elsewhere. Note
> the alliterating names within one family.

That's precisely why I'm sure we have the same initial element in
Segimerus and Segistes.

Piotr

> Jon Galster pointed out a
> similar complex around Ringsted (and Sigerslev) on Sjælland.