Re: The Cimmerians

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "CG <sonno3@...>" <sonno3@...>
wrote:

> > I am not a linguist, but might there not be many languages having
> > mori or similar for "sea" ("mori" given here
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/files/PIE%20roots/PIE%20-%
> > 20English.htm as a PIE root), and mar- for "dead", so how sure is
> > it that this has to be Celtic ?
>
> Looking through Pokorny's IEW, I do not believe that any Germanic
> dialects of the period would have had a root *mori- meaning
> specifically "sea" (it looks as if PIE *mori would have given a
> Germanic *mari-), and only Celtic languages are listed as having a -
> u- derivative (*mr-uo) of *mer- "die".
>
> - Chris Gwinn

1) Let us assume the word is Celtic. What does that tell us of the
language of the Cimbri (you didn't answer that question before)?

2) What are the locations other than Jutland that have been proposed
as a home for the Cimbri, and on what grounds?

Torsten