RE : [tied] Re: Ariovistus was not an "Aryan"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, patrick cuadrado <dicoceltique@...>
wrote:

>
> One Suggestion about Ario-Uistus
> I think it's a Celtic word
> Are/Ari- = before
> Uid-/Uida-/Uidi- = Sight < Knowledge
> So Ario-Uistus < anticipates man (warrior quality) or the man
> knows/guess beforhand

The problem is that Celtic, Germanic, Italic all have -d + t-, dh +
t-, -t + t- > -ss- (OIr. fess, fiss knowledge), not -st-
Further, the -o- would indicate the first element is a noun or
adjective.

> I think Cesar said Ariovuistus speak Celtic and his wife was a
> Noric Princess < Celtic too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariovistus
I'd take this as evidence it was a foreign language to him.


Torsten