Re: DBG

> A.F : We don't even understand what the word "Gaul" means.
> Obviously, both Gallia and Belgica include tribes that have
> definitely non-indo-european features :
> Haedu living near the Arar river
> Carnuti living near the Atura rive.
> These names with a_u scheme have a non-indo-european profile.
> And they just happen to be tax-exempted by the Romans
> because they helped Romans against the P-Celts Gauls.

I don't really understand what you mean by "non-indo-european
profile" - both Aedui and Carnuti are perfectly good Celtic names
with solid Proto-Indo-Euroepan etymologies.

> THe word Nantu that displays this a_u scheme is most probably
> a non-Indo-European word, that can help us determine where
> non-indo-european people were inhabiting.

[snip]

> It does not help determine Celtic positions.
> This nantu word has no PIE cognate and appears in the Alps area :
> an area with the most obvious reservoir of non indo-european

features.

I don't think that this is a non-Indo-European word - it is usually
considered a relative of Celtic nemeto- "sacred grove", and a
derivative of PIE *nem-(2) "to bend".

- Chris Gwinn