Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

> There is already an attested language called Venetic. The one you
> hypothesize (and I am not sure how it differs from Krahe's
> Alteuropäisch, or Pokorny's Veneto-Illyrisch)

It doesn't, as I thought I made clear.

> should be called something else to avoid confusion.

That's true.
The attested language called Venetic would be a member of a family of
languages, one in each of the places the Venet- occurs. Unfortunately
no one has come up with a suitable name for that family yet, so until
someone does, I'll probably call it 'the Venetic languages' and hope
people will be able to disambiguate from the context.

> Vennemann's rambling rhetoric is about as convincing as a three-
> dollar bill. In decades of riding his Euro-Vasconic hobbyhorse, he
> has yet to establish anything usable. A Kling-Klang similarity
> between 'cheese' and the Basque for 'salt' is etymologically
> worthless.

Unless backed up by specific criticism of Vennemanns proposal for the
connection between 'cheese' and the Basque for 'salt' the above ad
hominem filled paragraph is linguistically worthless.


Torsten