Re: Veneti (Was Re: Belgs)

--- On Wed, 10/15/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Veneti (Was Re: Belgs)
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 3:50 PM
> On 2008-10-15 20:21, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > Is there a meaning and ety. for /lex/?
> > I'm guessing it's not Germnanic
>
> It was actually *leNxU; the vowel lost its nasality in some
> Slavic
> dialects (esp. in East Slavic Ljaxi), but cf. Lith. Lenkas
> and Hung.
> Lengyel for Poles. *-x- is a common hypocoristic suffix in
> Slavic; the
> full ethnonym was *leNde^ne ("Lendians"), sg.
> *leNde^ninU, from *leNdo
> 'barren land'. An alternative suffix occured in the
> byform *leNditji
> (<Lendizi> in the Bavarian Geographer).
>
> Piotr

As such, I suppose it's cognate to Celtic and Germanic *land-