From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 56071
Date: 2008-03-27
>I have the impression that somebody on this forum has tried to make
>
> --- alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
>
> > --- 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
>
> ****GK: Who says it's a Germanic Formation? Hubert was
> referring to Cuny's comparison between an Italic and a
> Celtic tribal name.****
> >
> >