Re: Origin of *marko- Margus murg ma'rgas amurg

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@> wrote:
>
> > ****GK: The borders shifted of course, but they were
> > there at any given time. Read Tacitus et al. Why some
> > rather than others should have been called "marchmen"
> > raises the same difficulty (or lack thereof) as to why
> > some rather than others,in your scheme, should be
> > "horsemen".****
> > >
> > > Marius
> > >
>
> See my answer to Piotr for details...
>
> Shortly: the o in Marco is not Germanic

That's right, it should be -a-. So should the connecting vowel in
Ariovistus, but we know that his name most likely was transmitted to
Latin through Gaulish, since that was the language of Caesar's
information. So that is most likely the reason why Marcomanni has -o-
too. BTW, the geminated -nn- shows them to be a 'Mannus tribe', thus
recently Germanicized.


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