Re: Hydronyms and Toponyms, what *Mori- can tell us.

Proto-Indo-Europeans dwelt along the Mediterranean, Black, Caspian,
Baltic, and North Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Ocean; the
Proto-Celts developed in sitū from Proto-Indo-Europeans in Cisalpine
and Transalpine Gaul, Spain, Central Europe and the British Isles

2014-04-24 20:30 GMT+02:00, Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>:

> European IE languages (minus those from Balkans) shared a common word
> *mori-, whose meaning 'stagnant water, lake, sea' provided word for 'sea'.
> If European IE settlers had a name for 'sea', what sea are they refering to?
> Most plausible is Black Sea, but Baltic and Adriatic are possibilities. If
> the name means "lake", what lake is that? How could Celts keep a word for
> 'sea' moving across Europe? Should we infer that while Proto-Celts are
> arriving at France, did they keep contact to marine communities?
>
> JS Lopes