Re: Cimbri Name = the thieves

> http://www.davidkfaux.org/Cimbri-Chronology.pdf
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri
> Perhaps one ought to add a sixth 'possiblity' in the latter article,
> like this:
> 6) The Cimbri were Celtic-speaking like most of Northern Europe at the
> time; the Germanic language arrived from the east into the later
> Germania only around 50 - 1 BCE.

BTW there's the old observation that the +high, +round vowels [ü, ö
..] are found only in languages spoken in previously Celtic-speaking
areas: English (formerly), Dutch, French, German; but North Germanic
has those vowels too.


Torsten