Re: Identity of the 'language of geminates'

From: tgpedersen
Message: 60981
Date: 2008-10-17

> > There is a large amount of Celtic onomastic material from Noricum.
> > In Patrick Sims-Williams recent analyses of Celtic personal names
> > found in Latin inscriptions from the Roman period, there was a very
> > high density of Celtic names in Noricum - I think perhaps (going
> > from memory here) higher than in Roman Gaul.
>
> - Chris Gwinn
>
> ****GK: Unfortunately such considerations will not sway someone who
> reasons along the lines of "if it looks like a duck, waddles like a
> duck, and quacks like a duck,then it clearly must be a
> partridge..."****

Surely you mean quartridge?


Torsten