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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 10/17/08, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > From: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> > > If we have no evidence of a different Noric language, perhaps
> > > there was none.
> >
> > Absence of evidence etc...
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> >
> > Torsten
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> Then give us something to work with. Illyrians were in the area.
> Is there anything interesting in the topos, names, numismatics,
> substrate of Austrian German and Slovenian?
I've putting it off for some time, because it seems kinda big, but
1) Joz^ef S^avli / Matej Bor, Unsere Vorfahren die Veneter contains
some instances of cognates Slovenian - Western Alpine toponyms.
Unfortunately they claim that the Slavic languages themselves are Venetic.
2) There are a couple of good books of the state of the art on (Adria)
Venetic instriptions. I've ordered them.
3) In order to verify whether S^avli and Bor's cognacy claims
Slovenian - Western Alpine toponyms are with general Slavic or with
particularly Slovenian words, which might be loans from Venetic I need
a Slovenian etymological dictionary. It should be possible.
4) Gol/a,b has lists of words he thinks entered directly as loans from
other IE families into Slavic, among them from Italic. This is usually
interpreted as from Venetic. The list could be compared with Kuhn's
list of Italic/Germanic (pseudo-)cognates with root vowel /a/.
5) The class of Alpine alphabets which Markey claims Germanic runes
are derived from are used for inscriptions in Raetic.
6) I better check the survey by Patrick Sims-Williams on Celtic names.
Do you have a reference, Chris?
Torsten