[tied] Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Egijus <segijus@...> wrote:

>
> Sams(ø)
> Als
> Mors
> Mols
>
> Jegind(ø)
>
> Anund (now Anholt)
> Selund (now Sjælland)
> Borgund (Borgundærholm > Bornholm)
> Hello,
>
> My suggestions about what roots can be of these words:
>
> Samland is misspelling of Duchy of Semba.
>
> Word ALUS in Lithuanian means BEER.

Lithuanian ALUS is a loanword from Gothis *alus. In Old Norse we have
o,l, with labian umlaut > Danish øl, id. We have no umlaut in Als, it
cannot simply derive from Alu-.

> Word MOLIS in Lithuanian means CLAY.

Molis in Lithuanian has a long vowel -o-, if I'm not wrong, in
Lithuanian a vowel /o/ is always long. IE short /o/ is /a/ in
Lithuanian (and in every other Baltic language). But the Danish
toponym has a short /o/.

> Word JEGA in Lithuanian means POWER. Compare name Jegindans with

name Galindans (Baltic nation, which lived in Prusa and near town of
Moscow (Maskava).

> Word ANAS in Lithuanian means ANOTHER ONE.

That makes no sense at all. Why not Latin anas "duck", Sumerian
an "heaven", or Coptic an "apparence", or any other item one can
imagine?
Remember that we are dealing with scanty monosyllables, without any
proof of a Baltic substrate in Denmark. Many Germanic items are non-
IE, but I find no Baltic remnants in proto-Germanic.

> Also there was Baltic nation Selians (Seleans).

That is suspect, probably of non-IE origin like the name of many other
IE tribes (cfr. Chaidemii in Norway, quoted by Ptolemy, etc...)

Regards

Marco