From: tgpedersen
Message: 49643
Date: 2007-08-25
>About 30 km north of the Somme, on the coast.
> I have extracted what I believed is
> the core of the supposed demonstration :
>
>
> Ein ganzes Bündel anderer Namen,
> Namenwörter und =suffixe sichern, mit nur kleinen Schwankungen, die
> genannte Linie als den nördlichen Grenzsaum der keltischen
> Ortsnamengebung, vor allem in Frankreich.
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> Nördlich der Somme und
> oberen Oise habe ich ein breiteres Vorkommen bei keiner
> unzweïfelhaft keltischen Bildung mehr gefunden.
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> Es ist jedoch
> wahrscheinlich, daß stärkere keltische Siedlung diese Linie nicht
> überschritten hat.
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>
> Some Unzweifelhafte examples of Gaulish compound place-names :
>
> Brimeux : brivo-magos (the market near the bridge)
> on the Gallo-Roman road from Amiens to Boulogne
> This Brivo crosses the Canche River < Cantia (the bright River in
> GAulish)
> Escaudoeuvres : scaldo-briva : bridge over the Escaut RiverKuhn, Das Zeugnis der Namen again
> or scaldo-opera : fortress over the Escaut
> Hybrid compount : Escau-pont
> Nempont : hybrid compoundSee above.
> it is either the nemeto-pontus (bridge of the sacred place) or the
> nanto-pontus (bridge of the valley)
> Mareuil : maro-ialos (clearing in the marshes or the big clearing)Which is where?
> Beaurains, Beaurainville, Beaurain : Balo-rinos (the white river(the white Rhine !))
> Thérouanne : Tarvo-(w)onna : the river of the BullBut is this a typical Celtic name?
> Was the capital of the Morini.
> Meaullens : medio-lanum (old name of Arras neighborhood)Do you have any old forms of that?
> Nemeto-cenna : old name near Arras (replaced by Atrebat-is)Typical Celtic name?
> the capital of Atrebates
> Cited by Caesar himself !! (Please pay your respect)
> He had winter campment in this place.
> MiscellaneousIs bebros proof of Celtic settlement?
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> Beuvry, Beuvry la Forêt : from bebros "beaver"
> La beuvrière
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> It seems to me that Herr Doktor KUHN overlooked3 - 4 cases of briva/briga and -oilum/-oialum. Hardly ein breiteres
> obvious cases in order to arrive at his pre-conceived idea.
> He hypocritically discovers (ueberraschenderweise...)
> that the absence of Gaulish names north of the Somme wunderbar
> matches the famous Caesarian dichotomy....
>
> Disgusting...
> Ugly work...