Re: Sin once more

> > Celticists derive Parisii < *kwVr-- "pot", hence "the pot heads,
> > the kettle kin" (vel sim off the top of my head), right?

I think it's more likely that the name is derivative of PIE *kWer- "to
cause, to make", thus something like German "Macher".

> > But there were also Parisii in E/NE England, right? somewhere
> > around N Anglia, Northumbria?
>
> Yes. Read Stephen Oppenheimer's recent 'Origins of the British'.
> On genetic grounds he reaches the conclusion that the Adventus Saxonum
> can't have been very significant in terms of numbers, so Eastern
> Britain should have been Germanic-speaking before that, or rather
> Belgic-speaking, which he takes to be Germanic, loosely based on
> discussions of whether the Belgae fall on the Celtic or the Germanic
> side of the hedge, without taking the whole NWB-problem into account.
> This is why I consider the Veneti idea a godsend, so to speak.
> It seems to solve all those problems.

Oppenheimer's arguments are ludicrous and don't meet any kind of
academic standards. In fact, there is little-to-no doubt among modern
linguists that the Belgae spoke a Celtic dialect. - the onomastic
material alone supports this fact.

- Chris Gwinn