Re: [tied] Arminius/Hermann

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

> 13-04-2004 12:15, tgpedersen wrote:
>
>
> > In Kuhn's view, Arminius wouldn't have spoken a Germanic

language at

> > all but some Nordwestblock language. Some members of his family

have

> > non-Germanic names (Segestes), some Germanic (Sigimerus). This

might

> > represent the beginning of Germanic's linguistic conquest of the
> > Nordwestblock. It would also be the background of the different
> > ideologies of Arminius and the "proper" Germanic Marbod in their
> > conflict as related in Tacitus' annals.
>
> Segestes had a non-Germanic name but his brother Segimerus

(Tacitus'

> spelling) had a Germanic one? Can one seriously believe that?

Segestes

> can easily be a haplological abbreviation of *se/igi-gastiz.
>

Would you believe it if two brothers were named Louis and John? Take
another look at Cheruscan names to see how many of them have
possible Germanic etymologies.

Torsten