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

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Come to think about it, Marius' proposal might even
> be possible.
> The geminate -nn- in -manni and the connection with
> the anestor Mannus
> means the Marcomanni were of the same kind as eg.
> the Chatti, ie. a
> displaced NWBlock people. But that means we should
> not expect k -> x
> -> h in the name, cf Chatti, in the first sources
> called Catti (and
> remember that this is the mark of the NWBlock, that
> it had no
> Grimm-shift). So in such a language we would have
> *marko- "horse".
> That also fits with Caesar's description that the
> Germani used a very
> new tactic of pairing men of infantry and of cavalry
> in pairs (he
> doesn't specifically single out the Marcomanni), so
> "horsemen" would
> make sense.

****GK: And the "Suebi" would be the infantrymen
(:=)))?? ****

>
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> Torsten
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