Re: Salt, s-/h- ALLOBROGES

--- On Sun, 10/5/08, keltikos <keltikos@...> wrote:

> From: keltikos <keltikos@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h- ALLOBROGES
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 5:10 PM
> No, but it was common that people were moving on and around
> from
> their original places, keeping their country-names, like
> Kasses
> (Hesse, then Welliokasses, Biokasses, Trikasses in France)
> and
> perhaps Turones (Thüringen, Tours and South Gallaecia?).
> Salt was an
> interchange media before metal coins were.
>
>

Yes, salt was very important but if they stopped dealing in salt, they'd stop being the "Salt Dudes". See if you can find any classical references linking them to salt. If you do, you'll have a leg to stand on

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...>
> wrote:
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> > --- On Sun, 10/5/08, keltikos <keltikos@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > > From: keltikos <keltikos@...>
> > > Subject: [tied] Re: Salt, s-/h-
> > > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 2:34 PM
> > > ALLOBROGES perhaps doesn't mean "the
> seconds in the
> > > territory", but
> > > "DWELLERS IN THE SALT REGION".
> "mroga"
> > > or "broga" is indeed
> > > "inhabitable earth" and...
> >
> > Maybe.
> > Can you document that they were salt producers and
> that their
> territory was noted for salt production?
> > Can you show that they spoke a dialect where /s-/ >
> /h-/?
> > If you can, then kudos,
> > if not, it's just a possibility, along with the
> exonym "the dudes
> from the other country."
> >