From: Torsten
Message: 65567
Date: 2009-12-31
> Having done some poking around at <Chatti> and <Mattium>, I haveIt cannot be the same *Germanic* word, I suppose you mean. It is most likely the same word in the donor language, whichever that was. I've argued that the *kant- "regiment, flank, people" word ultimately is a wanderword, since it occurs all the way through Asia, along with *LuN- "(unordered) file, whole people", but I think I recall that the -tt-/-ss- alternation existed only in Europe.
> not found a credible continuation of <Chatti> at all. The name
> seems to have died out when the remnants of the tribe merged into
> the Franks. The name <Hassi>, <Hessi>, etc. (first <ad Chassus>
> 699) cannot be the same, despite valiant attempts by several
> scholars to rationalize the -ss-. This is in contrast to
> <Chattuarii>, which does have several secure continuations.
>