Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 54761
Date: 2008-03-06

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:23 -0000, "tgpedersen"
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>> > We have three "leader names" from the 2nd c.BCE.
>> > Torsten, following Gibbon, does not think they are
>> > Germanic. But Gibbon's text is at least partially
>> > defective. Muellenhoff, a much stronger scientific
>> > authority than Gibbon, thinks they are indeed
>> > Germanic. And I see no reason to doubt this.
>> > Muellenhoff believes that 1."Clondicus" resembles
>> > O.Sax. "Indico", that 2."Cotto" resembles Old Sax.
>> > "Goddo", and 3."Talto" has Alemannic analogues.
>
>I'll give one more reason to doubt this. The stem of Cotto, *kot-, if
>Germanic, would have been *gVd-.

Or *gut-' or *gudh- (by Kluge's law).

>That violates the constraint on PIE
>roots that they can't be of the form *DVD-, where D is a voiced,
>unspirated stop (this is actually one of the criteria Kuhn uses to
>sift non-Germanic roots in his material.

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