Re: [tied] "ger"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> The origin of <germa:nus> as an ethnic term is debated; I'm now

inclined to

> think that it's simply the Latin common adjective

<germa:nus> 'having the

> same ancestors', translating an original Germanic ethnonym. No

thinkable

> connection with Hebrew.
>
> Piotr

Interesting idea. Can you expand on it, Piotr? Is the original
Germanic hypothetical? It doesn't quite fit as a translation of
the 'Suobi' "Us people" group of names.
I seem to remember another etymology, "ger-man" = "spear-man".
What's the earliest attestation, Caesar?
Dan