From: tgpedersen
Message: 27896
Date: 2003-12-02
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>Not necessarily. The -mb- of 'lamb' and 'comb' is from -m-, Medieval
> wrote:
> > In a footnote Udolph mentions a rumour (1988) from a colleague of
> a
> > dissertation being written in Minich (but not heard of again in
> 1993)
> > according to which the Jastorf culture might have come from the
> south
> > (which would fit in with Cimmerians > Cimbri etc).
>
> A problem with proposing a Cimmeri-Cimbri connection- mb must
> precede mm,
>which is probably why Strabo and Poseidonius suggestedI don't think you find that type of argument in the classical writers.
> the Cimmeri came from the Cimbri, migrating eastwards, as they must
> have been aware that this phonetic phenomenon was unlikely, unlike
> Plutarch, who believed the Cimbri came from the Cimmeri.
>Which is one scenario. The problem is we don't know much of the
> While, the Thraco-Cimmerian remains found in Hungary in a Hallstatt
> level in conjunction with the seemingly Thracian/Scythian origin of
> the style of the Gundestrup cauldron can be taken to be evidence
> of a connection between the Cimbri and Cimmeri, there's no
> linguistic evidence for this connection, unless you want to believe
> the Cimmerian presence in Hungary was absorbed by the Hallstatt
> Celtic population and migrated to northern Europe as the Cimbri.
>
> regarding the rest of what you said, what language would yousuggest
> was spoken in the Nordwestblock area if you had to guess?I just ordered Kuhn's books from the library, so I'll take a rain
>