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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> Patrick Ryan pisze:
>
> > For whatever interest it may have, I believe *Ha(:)nti- can be
> > analyzed as
> >
> > *Ha, 'forehead' + -*n, 'thing' = 'forehead'
> > + -*to = 'front'; + -y = 'thing pertaining to the front' = 'face'
>
> Oops, I actually intended to write *h2ant- (preserved in Hittite as
> a root noun); *h2anti is its locative, meaning 'in front' -->
> 'opposite, against, before', etc.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/55551
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54256
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/55557
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/54256
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/51056
we should probably include Goth. handugs "smart" (< "sharp") here
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/11660
and
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/53805
Makes one wonder if this is not a cultural term, of surveying in this
case. Semantics: "edge" > "cover" > "hat, helmet" > "something
helmet-sheped", leaving word with these diverse meanings. So the
question is whether the Chatti were "the people on the edge" (cf
Ukraine) or "the people of the hills". After the Marcomanni leave for
Bohemia, you hear nothing of Suevi on the Roman border, only Chatti.
Torsten