Re: The progressive emergence of "Germanic"

>
> > What am I to make of the 'Harigasti teiwa'
> > inscription on the Negau
> > helmet? "Harigasti god"? What is the proper
> > interpretation of that?
>
> *****GK: Teiwaz knows... It may be relevant to note
> that the "teiwa" part is actually a longer inscription
> some portions of which (3 or 4 letters) have not been
> deciphered. If Hubert is right in suggesting that the
> Celtic words represent in all cases name+patronymic
> combinations, then "teiwa..i.." might have been a
> Germanic patronymic constructed out of either a god
> name or of something that had some of the same sounds
> as a god name.*****

'harikastiteiva\\\ip'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negau_helmet
Whatever ends in -ip in Germanic.

Here's suggestion to why they were found where they were found:
After the debacle, Ariovistus' ceremonial helmet and that of others
close to him were sent back to his father-in-law, king Voccio of
Noricum, where they were buried sometime after 58 BCE.


Torsten