From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 13993
Date: 2002-07-12
Or the conquering AngloSaxons might have heard a "slushy" /s/ which
they identified with their own /s/?
Tacitus, Germania:
". . ., to the right shore of the Suevi sea, we find it washing the
Aestii nations who have religious observance and demeanour of the
Suevi, but a language more like to that of Britain."
Which might be interpreted to mean that p-Celtic survived as a
Northern splinter group some time into the Germanic expansion around
0 CE (whatever the origin and cause of that); and that it had *s ->
*h?But the Aestii are routinely (though not absolutely reliably) identified with the West Balts... A p-Celtic Prussia, later conquered by the West Balts?Sergei