From: tgpedersen
Message: 56456
Date: 2008-04-02
>That would explain why you aren't a Chatti.
>
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> From: tgpedersen
>
> > What opaque words do we know from Chatti ?
>
> I cite from
> Kuhn: Chatti und Mattium, die langen Tenues des Altgermanischen:
>
> Chatti (also Catti, later Hessen), their capital Mattium (now
> Maden), the town of Metze, the brook it's at Metzoff/Matzoff, the
> subtribe Chatt-uarii, later Hattuaria / Hatteron, Mattiaci, aquae
> Mattiacae, many town and field names in Hesse in Metz-, the personal
> names Arpus, Flanallus, Lives, Ramis, Gandestrius or Adgandestrius,
> Catu- or Actu-merus and Ucro-mirus, etc.
>
> Torsten
>
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> Catti points at *ka?-t-
> Pok 521 has the alternating root
> skait skaid "bright"
> the Catti are the bright ones.
> This another example of my proposalThe -i-?
> Celtic ka?-t > katt- bright
> Lituanian skaidrus < *ska?-i-tr
>
> Matt river points at *ma?-t- "water"PAA *ma?- "water" and therefore it's Celtic?
> Cf. PAA *ma?- "water"
> aquae mattiacae is watery waters.
> Standard Celtic.Sez who? Goscinny? Uderzo? You can't change the fact that the Chatti