From: tgpedersen
Message: 64259
Date: 2009-06-25
>More possible Nemetic/Nemetski 'refugee camps' after Ariovistus:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > BTW
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemetes
> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niemcza
> > > >
> > > > That would make sense if the Nemetes had come all the way
> > > > from Przeworsk-land with Ariovistus. The question is then:
> > > > how close would the Slavs have to have been at the time A.
> > > > left with them for that to be their designation for Germanic?
> >
> >
> > It's possible to argue for 'nemeton' being of originally Venetic,
> > not Celtic origin, cf the geographical spread:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemeton
> > http://www.roman-britain.org/nemeton.htm
> > and perhaps
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantes
> > (the site of Caesar's Gallic Veneti)
> >
> > The -et- ethnonym suffix would place the name with the *-iþi names
> > http://tinyurl.com/5udkqz
>
>
> Håndbog i danske stednavne
>
> 'LØSE.
> 36. Niløse s. Merløse h. *1231 Niløsworæ, c. 1370 Nyløsæ.
> Forleddet er mul. adj. ny. Hald Um p. 86.
>
> TOFT
> 102. Nimtofte s. Djurs Nørre h. 1426 Nimtoft.
> Mul. adj. ny + he:m (Hald Um p. 86 i forbindelse med Nim,
> jfr. DS XII, 214). Vokalen y er afrundet til i på grund af
> stillingen foran m.
> [Poss adj ny "new" + he:m "home" (Hald Um p. 86 in conn. w. Nim,
> cf. DS XII, 214). The vowel y is unrounded to i because of the
> position before m.
>
> UM.
> 107. Nim s. og h. *1231 Nymheret. Se reg. E: 69.
> Har været tolket af adj. ny, hvilket betvivles af Hald Um p. 86.
> Han ser i forleddet et glda. *ni: af uvis opr. som findes fx i
> Niløse.
> [Has been interpreted as from adj. ny "new" which is doubted by
> Hald Um p.86. He sees in the first element an ODa. *ni: of
> uncertain origin which eg. is found in Niløse.]Se reg. A: LØSE 36.
>
>
> E
> Syssel- og herredsnavne
>
> 69. Nim h. *1231 Nymheret.
> Er tolket af adj. ny eller af en stamme *ni: af uvis opr., som
> menes at indgå i Niløse, Merløse h. *1231 Niløsworæ og måske i nr.
> 70.
> [Has been interpreted as from the adj ny "new" or from a stem *ni:
> of uncertain org. thought to appear in Niløse, Merløse h. *1231
> Niløsworæ and perhaps also in no. 70]
> Se Hald Um p. 86. DS XII, 214.
>
> 70. Ning h. *1231 Ninggeheret.
> Opkaldt med suffiks -ing efter et ukendt sted ved navn *Ni, se
> under nr. 69.
> [Named with suffix -ing after an unknown place named *Ni, see under
> no. 69.
> DS XII, 52.'
>
>
> My guess: <- *Nim-inga-
>