From: Rick McCallister
Message: 60923
Date: 2008-10-16
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>I asked because I've seen the bandied about as substrate for western IE. The connection between open wasteland is interesting because perhaps they introduced the new kind of plow that was suited to northern Europe, the *plug- --that is, if the timeframe fits.
> Subject: Re: [tied] Veneti (Was Re: Belgs)
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 4:45 PM
> On 2008-10-15 21:58, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > As such, I suppose it's cognate to Celtic and
> Germanic *land-
>
> Yes, except that the Slavic nasal vowel reflects the
> e-grade (occurring
> also in some Germanic derivatives) or possibly the zero
> grade -- perhaps
> something like *lendHom, coll. *ln.dHah2 (Slavic has both
> neuter and
> feminine reflexes), cf. also OPr. lindan 'valley'.
> As for the meaning,
> in Slavic the emphasis is on 'waste, uncultivated'
> -- apparently the
> Lendians specialised in reclaiming open wastelands
> (including the
> population voids resulting from Germanic migrations?).
>
> Piotr