From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 54785
Date: 2008-03-06
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>I do.
>wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:54:23 -0000, "tgpedersen"
>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >> > We have three "leader names" from the 2nd c.BCE.
>> >> > Torsten, following Gibbon, does not think they are
>> >> > Germanic. But Gibbon's text is at least partially
>> >> > defective. Muellenhoff, a much stronger scientific
>> >> > authority than Gibbon, thinks they are indeed
>> >> > Germanic. And I see no reason to doubt this.
>> >> > Muellenhoff believes that 1."Clondicus" resembles
>> >> > O.Sax. "Indico", that 2."Cotto" resembles Old Sax.
>> >> > "Goddo", and 3."Talto" has Alemannic analogues.
>> >
>> >I'll give one more reason to doubt this. The stem of Cotto, *kot-, if
>> >Germanic, would have been *gVd-.
>>
>> Or *gut-' or *gudh- (by Kluge's law).
>>
>Even if one believed that Kluge's law existed