Re: Volcae and Volsci

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 56066
Date: 2008-03-27

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> Here's a little passage from Hubert's "Rise":
>
> "With regard to the Volc©¡, one of the oldest groups
> and one of the first to leave their old homes, bodies
> of whom went to the ends of the Celtic world and were
> in the position of an advanced guard in Gaul, a recent
> conjecture corroborates our hypothesis regarding their
> original habitat. That very ingenious philologist, M.
> Cuny, has compared the name of the Volc©¡ to that of
> the Volsci of Latium, and suggests that the two
> peoples had the same name, having the termination -co
> in one case and -sco in the other. Both terminations
> were used alternatively in what was apparently the old
> name of the Oscans, Opisci, or, as the Greeks said,
> ¥Ï¥ð¥é¥ê¥ïὴ. If M. Cuny is right we have to do
> with a name which was common to the vocabularies of
> the Italic and Celtic groups. Since racial names do
> not seem to turn up in two neighbouring racial spheres
> by mere chance, the Volc©¡ or Volsci may be a people
> divided between the two groups, belonging to one and
> having sent out emigrants to the other. Their presence
> in Bavaria and their obstinacy in remaining there are
> most significant facts. The Volc©¡ did not go to
> Bavaria; they were there, and quite close to the
> probable point of contact between the Italici and the
> Celts."
>
> Comments?


As I know we have a short o in Volsci so I don't see how this can
be a Germanic Formation (similar with *walh-)

Marius