Re: hal

--- In cybalist@..., "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>
>
> 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

If you are to believe Tacitus, apparently yes. But it would fit in
nicely with my idea that Denmrk then was part Celtic (Cimbri), part
Old-Germanic speaking.

Torsten