Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

From: tgpedersen
Message: 56456
Date: 2008-04-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
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> > What opaque words do we know from Chatti ?
>
> I cite from
> Kuhn: Chatti und Mattium, die langen Tenues des Altgermanischen:
>
> Chatti (also Catti, later Hessen), their capital Mattium (now
> Maden), the town of Metze, the brook it's at Metzoff/Matzoff, the
> subtribe Chatt-uarii, later Hattuaria / Hatteron, Mattiaci, aquae
> Mattiacae, many town and field names in Hesse in Metz-, the personal
> names Arpus, Flanallus, Lives, Ramis, Gandestrius or Adgandestrius,
> Catu- or Actu-merus and Ucro-mirus, etc.
>
> Torsten
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> Catti points at *ka?-t-
> Pok 521 has the alternating root
> skait skaid "bright"
> the Catti are the bright ones.

That would explain why you aren't a Chatti.
What happened to the -i-?


> This another example of my proposal
> Celtic ka?-t > katt- bright
> Lituanian skaidrus < *ska?-i-tr
>
The -i-?


> Matt river points at *ma?-t- "water"
> Cf. PAA *ma?- "water"
> aquae mattiacae is watery waters.

PAA *ma?- "water" and therefore it's Celtic?
Why? Because the main language in Paris is Arabic?
And if I deny that, you say 'NSDAP' as ominously as you can?

> Standard Celtic.

Sez who? Goscinny? Uderzo? You can't change the fact that the Chatti
archaeologically aren't Celtic.


Torsten