Veneti (Was Re: Belgs)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> 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?).

That *lVnd- thing exists in Baltic Finnic, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic,
Celtic, Romance (French and Italian) and Basque. I think I posted that
fact before, but I can't find it in the archives?


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