From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19367
Date: 2003-02-27
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Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:49 PM
Subject: Re:Re: [tied] Lusitanians
> Thanks, that was helpful. Regarding the Lusitanians, it is possible then that they were Indo-Europeans, not speaking an Iberian dialect?
That's what I said. An Indo-European group (and therefore not "Iberian"), although probably non-Celtic.
> Are Indo-European as well as native non-Indo-European (Iberian or Tartessian?) elements attested among the Lusitanians? Besides this, are any possible non-Celtic Indo-European elements seen any where else in the Iberian Peninsula besides among the Lusitanians?
Perhaps a careful study of IE loans in Basque could reveal something new (if some of them prove to be pre-Celtic). As for Lusitanian, the evidence is too fragmentary to enable any credible conclusions.
> I know that there's the name of Arganthonios, the king of Tartessos, but that's usually seen as being Celtic, containing the root word for silver, but could it have been a non-Celtic Indo-European name as well? (Lusitanian?)
Who can tell? :-(
Piotr