Re: The progressive emergence of "Germanic"

> > > If your linguistic reconstruction of Harigast as
> > Ariovistus is
> > > correct (and I'm not saying it is),
> >
> > Please do. It means a lot to me.
> >
> >
> > > then this was a much earlier "Ariovistus", not the
> > Suebian warlord
> > > and king of Caesar's time.
> >
> > So the one Caesar mentions should properly be called
> > Ariovistus II?

According to Grimm, 'Gast' is used in one sense of the independent
warrior who gets thru life whichever way he can, hence its use as
second element in many esp. Frankish heros' names. A Ronin, in other
words.

According to Kluge, we should distinguish between PIE *kor-yo- 'zum
Kriege gehörig' "what pertains to war", and PIE *kori- "war" as in
Harigasti- (his own example). Whichever way, it comes out as
*harjagasti- and *harigasti-.


Torsten