I have extracted what I believed is
the core of the supposed demonstration
:
Ein ganzes Bündel anderer Namen,
Namenwörter und =suffixe sichern, mit
nur kleinen Schwankungen, die
genannte Linie als den nördlichen Grenzsaum der
keltischen
Ortsnamengebung, vor allem in Frankreich.
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Nördlich der Somme und
oberen Oise habe ich ein breiteres Vorkommen bei
keiner unzweïfelhaft
Keltischen Bildung mehr gefunden.
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Es ist jedoch
wahrscheinlich, daß stärkere keltische Siedlung diese
Linie nicht
überschritten hat.
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Some Unzweifelhafte examples of Gaulish compound
place-names :
Brimeux : brivo-magos (the market near the
bridge)
on the Gallo-Roman road from Amiens to
Boulogne
This Brivo crosses the Canche River < Cantia
(the bright River in GAulish)
Escaudoeuvres : scaldo-briva : bridge over the
Escaut River
or scaldo-opera : fortress over the
Escaut
Hybrid compount : Escau-pont
Nempont : hybrid compound
it is either the nemeto-pontus (bridge of the
sacred place) or the nanto-pontus (bridge of the valley)
Mareuil : maro-ialos (clearing in the marshes or
the big clearing)
Beaurains, Beaurainville, Beaurain : Balo-rinos
(the white river (the white Rhine !))
Thérouanne : Tarvo-(w)onna : the river of the Bull
Was the capital of the Morini.
Meaullens : medio-lanum (old name of Arras
neighborhood)
Nemeto-cenna : old name near Arras (replaced by
Atrebat-is)
the capital of Atrebates
Cited by Caesar himself !! (Please pay your
respect)
He had winter campment in this place.
Miscellaneous
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Beuvry, Beuvry la Forêt : from bebros
"beaver"
La beuvrière
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It seems to me that Herr Doktor KUHN
overlooked
obvious cases in order to arrive at his
pre-conceived idea.
He hypocritically discovers
(ueberraschenderweise...)
that the absence of Gaulish names north of the
Somme wunderbar matches
the famous Caesarian dichotomy....
Disgusting...
Ugly work...