Re: Cymerians?

Torsten wrote

> I am tempted to enter the conversation at this point to mention an
> idea I have seen that the Cimmerians, after having been expelled

from

> the North Pontic regions and relegated to Anatolia, might later

have

> formed part of the p-Celtic invasion; thus possibly Cimmerian =

Cymru?

> (Which would make the Cimmerians proto-p-Celts, I suppose).

This is a piece of folk etymology that entered into medieval
genealogies Torsten. Cymru comes from the Romano-British "Combrogi"
meaning Companion, and has no relation to the Cimmerians, called
Gomer in the Bible and probably closer to G than to C.

Regards

John