Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

--- On Thu, 10/16/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> Subject: [tied] Identity of the 'language of geminates'
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 11:53 AM
> The Germanic runes were most likely developed from alphabets
> used to
> write the language(s?) of Noricum. Both runes and those
> Alpine
> alphabets tend to suppress homorganic nasals before stops
> (or
> prenasalization)
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/13790
>
> The reflexes of Schrijver's language of geminates
> alternates
> -VTT-/-V:T-/-VNT- (for T unvoiced stop), which might
> reflect dialectal
> variation, but also paradigmatic variation.
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48662
>
> Someone facing the task of coming up with a writing system
> might get
> the idea of leaving out any indication of
> prenasalization/homorganic
> nasals in the writing altogether, since that phenomenon was
> not
> morphemic. Which means the language spoken in Noricum (most
> likely
> Venetic or something close to it) for which those alphabets
> were
> designed might have been the donor language for the
> 'language of
> geminates' loan in N European languages.
>
> The name of the Norican king, Vocio/Voccio/VOKK(on coins)
> shows that
> the language of Noricum had geminates. And =? *Wonk-,
> related to
> Vang-ijo-, note one of Odin's names is Vak-r ?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin
>
>
> Torsten

We know that one of the languages of Noricum was Celtic, thanks to 2 Noric inscriptions found in present day Austria.
We also know that Romance hung on in Noricum for a few hundred years after the fall of the Roman Empire --thanks to the Wikipedia page on Romance language of Noricum and Pannonia and also to topos such as Vaduz.
When did King Vokk-yo- live?