From: george knysh
Message: 56068
Date: 2008-03-27
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh****GK: Who says it's a Germanic Formation? Hubert was
> <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
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