Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

>
> 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).
>

Even if one believed that Kluge's law existed (what are all those
semantics-less n-suffixes doing there?) there is the problem of
relating OSax. Goddo to Bastarean Cotto. A separate Bastarnean 2LV?

Torsten