Re: [tied] When Germani?

>>BTW How can Sequani be p-Celtic?

I was just reading about this in Pierre-Yves Lambert's La Langue Gauloise.
He gives Chris' example of Sequana and also Eqvos (also from Coligny) as
exceptional instances occuring in a P-Celtic Gaulish.

Max

>We have documents from their territory that prove they spoke a P-Celtic
>dialect. One should be aware that the presence of a -qu- in Gaulish words
>does _not_ indicate a Q-Celtic dialect _unless_ that -qu- is the outcome of
>a PIE -kw-. The simply fact is, Gaulish employed -qu- to represent the
>combination of -co- + -u-. For example, the Gaulish ethnic name Quariates is
>very likely for *Co-uariates (with Co- from PIE kom- "together/with/co-").
>This means that Sequana may be from *seko-uana (note Gallo-Brittonic uan-
>"slay/pierce").
>
>Another possible use of -qu- in Gaulish is simply as an alternate spelling
>for -cu- (as we see in the Calendar of Coligny, where Cutios can be written
>Qutios or even Gutios). In this case, the root of Sequana may simply be a
>u-stem *secu- + the suffix -ana.