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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> --- 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-

Some words do have -st-; the order was probably tt>st>ts>ss. Some
words didn't have metathesis, or the order was restored at some
morpheme boundaries.