Re: Who were the Igylliones?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> Little bits and pieces while waiting for Pachkova's magnum opus...
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> The Igylliones are mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography at III,5. They supposedly inhabited the territory east of the Vistula ( and east of the Avarini at the source of the Vistula), and west of the Costoboci and Transmontani.

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> Question: Is there any way of etymologizing <igylli> as Germanic ?
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Possibly w the Ingvaeones if:

*
ingwayones
igwanyones
igwalyones n-n dis.
igwallyones
iguwalliyones


or similar (translation makes only speculation possible for any exact changes).