Res: Re Re: Fw: [tied] Pferd

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 49517
Date: 2007-08-14

Ardennes < goddess Arduina < *arduo - "high"

----- Mensagem original ----
De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 14 de Agosto de 2007 12:04:54
Assunto: Re Re: Fw: [tied] Pferd

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@ ...>
wrote:

>
> Cesar wrote a book of self promotion and propaganda.
> It is childish to think that this propaganda can be taken
> as relevant ethnological data.

I am a bad boy.

> Cesar may not be happy to hear this
> but I just think this division in three is BullShit.

That oughta settle that question.

> It doesn't even mention Basks and Greeks !!
>
> As for p-less etymology in supposedly "Belgian" :
> remes < prem "those at the front".

Possible. Ethnonym? Toponym? Hydronym?

> Names in supposedly "Belgian" part of the country
> that have clear-cut P-celt origin :
> - oise
> - somme
> - Ambiani
> - Morini
> - Ardenne
> - atrebates
> - veromandi

Do you happen to know their etymologies? I thought the river names
were Old European?

> Instead of relying on Cesar information,
> I guess the first step is to have a reliable cartography of places
> where Celts settlements are well attested

That sounds like a good idea. Do you have one?

> Before you try to cram things in a dichotomy, fallen from the sky.

Trichotomy, actually, and Caesar didn't fall from the sky.

> As for potatoe and mayo, it was imported and invented afterwards

Thanks for setting that right. That must be why I couldn't find
*kWotato- in Pokorny.

> So far, they have found a petrified wood boat.

Heavy stuff.

Torsten



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