Re: That old Odin scenario ...

At 4:42:26 AM on Friday, June 26, 2009, tgpedersen wrote:

>> The river Lemon, either from Brit. *lem-, *lim- 'an elm
>> tree' or from Brit. *lim- 'mud, marsh'. I'm not about to
>> waste my time looking further: the point's made.

> Oh, that word.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/62524
> As to the conclusion, I think I'll amend that to: '... or
> from a substrate to FU and IE languages'.

> And Pokorny adds.:
> '3. lei ,schleimig, durch Nässe glitschiger Boden,
> ausgleiten, worüber hin schleifen oder -streichen, auch
> glättend worüber fahren; andrerseits schleimig = klebrig';
> vielfach auch slei-;

[...]

Though the 'mud, marsh' root is a possibility, the name is
usually derived from the 'elm' root: OIr <lem>, Ir. <leamh>,
Welsh <llwyf>, Gaul. <Lemo-uices> (whence <Limoges>); Lat.
<ulmus>, Engl. <elm> -- Matasovic reconstructs *h1leym-, by
the way.

> And now I made *my* point; do you still want to maintain
> you've proven beyond a doubt the Celticness of the name of
> the river Lemon?

Of course not. Do I still think that it's most probably
Celtic? Of course.

Brian