Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
Kuhn points out a couple of fun facts about

> the Wend- and
> Welsch- names:
>
> 1) They don't overlap.
>
> 2) There aren't any in central NWBlock territory,
> Holland and south.
>
> Kuhn takes 1) to mean that Wend- and Welsch-
> designated the same
> ehtnic group. I think they may be two groups.

****GK: I agree. Does he have any information about
the use of "Welsch" or equivalents in Eastern Germany
and further? I haven't checked this thoroughly, but I
suspect that beyond the Visla the only "Welsh" would
be Romans/Romanians/Moldavians (via Goths and Slavs).
An isolated Celtic spot would be interesting if
found.****

2)

> seems to mean that
> whoever lived in central NWBlock they were never
> colonized to the
> degree that their settlement stood out from the rest
> so much that they
> were named for the ethnicity of their inhabitants.

****GK: Or that the integral old NWB language survived
for centuries in isolated pockets, like the Merya in
Central Russia?****

>
>
> Torsten
>
>
>

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