From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57155
Date: 2008-04-11
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
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If he believes out of principle that there were no languages between
Celtic and Germanic, you can hardly use it as evidence that he finds
Celtic/Germanic etymologies in that area? As Brian's examples showed,
it is difficult to guess the original form of so short a toponymic
element.
Torsten
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The author does commit herself to any hypotheses of that kind.
My next point is we are looking for PIE languages between Celtic, Italic and
Balto-slavic.
Germanic being a family coming from somewhere else far away,
languages between Celtic and Germanic include about all PIE, except
Anatolian and Tocharian.
NWB if it exists is a kind of para-celtic western PIE dead branch,
and it remains to be determined what the substrate in western Scandinavia
could be
(PIE or not).
And another point is the difficult of analysing toponyms is not a proof that
any hypothesis is acceptable.
Arnaud
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