Re: -leben/-lev/-löv and -ung-

> ****GK: Does Udolph know of any -leben/ clusters in
> the east? Otherwise your assumption of an invasion
> seems wholly gratuitous

It would be, if Germanic settlement names had survived in the area
later colonized by Slavs (approx. the ex-GDR). There seems to be a
general agreement in the sources I have seen that they didn't.

> (or is it but a constant>
> notion along the lines of Cato's "ceterum
> censeo..."(:=)))))****

I see that you have upgraded your assessment of my obsession. ;-)
Cato's was an admonition. Mine is a conviction, but on Popperian
ground, I just think the alternative of a bodenständig Germanic Urvolk
demands too many complicated explanations, in the style of Udolph's
reverse Grimm rule.


Torsten