Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

the Scottish Clan Chattan is associated with the cat
any chance it could just be a folk etymology and have
something to do with Chatti?
Or conversely, that the Chatti are a "Cat Clan"?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
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> > What opaque words do we know from Chatti ?
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> I cite from
> Kuhn: Chatti und Mattium, die langen Tenues des
> Altgermanischen:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> This another example of my proposal
> Celtic ka?-t > katt- bright
> Lituanian skaidrus < *ska?-i-tr
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> Matt river points at *ma?-t- "water"
> Cf. PAA *ma?- "water"
> aquae mattiacae is watery waters.
>
> Standard Celtic.
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> Arnaud
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