From: tgpedersen
Message: 50473
Date: 2007-11-01
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Cuadrado" <dicoceltique@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello
> > i think Cimbri Name tribe = the thieves
> > cf Irish Cimb = to tribute
> > cf Irish Cimbid = War prisoner
> > cf Cimbaeth King Name of Ireland = The looting man (?)
> >
> > but nothing outside Gaelic Kimb = thief (?) in IE (?)
> > something to do with Camb- = to exchange (?)
> >
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Aigius" <segijus@...> wrote:
>
> Word KIMBRAS, KIMBRYS, KIMBRETI have even 3 meanings in Lithuanian
> language: leg, some kind of cattle, to freeze. Also, one Cimbrian
> word is known - MORIMARUSA refering to Baltic sea. MORIMARUSA can be
> misspelling of MARIU MARUZHE, which in Lithuanian language means BIG
> SEA. Also compare with Dacian-Sarmatian-Getian capital Sarmuzhe
> Getushe (Sarmizegetusa). Also place name Pomerania (in Poland now)
> can come from word Pamare, which in Lithuanian language means LAND
> BY THE SEA. Also compare with Russian word MORE, meaning THE SEA.
>
http://www.davidkfaux.org/Cimbri-Chronology.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimbri
Perhaps one ought to add a sixth 'possiblity' in the latter article,
like this:
6) The Cimbri were Celtic-speaking like most of Northern Europe at the
time; the Germanic language arrived from the east into the later
Germania only around 50 - 1 BCE.
Torsten