Re: The spread of Germanic (Was Re: Morimarusa)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 65660
Date: 2010-01-16

W dniu 2010-01-16 10:43, Torsten pisze:

> http://tinyurl.com/yl7kc6j <http://tinyurl.com/yl7kc6j>
> I have proposed to explain the Bastarnian names Clonix and Clondicus on
> the basis of a Grimm-shifted root that would exist in Germanic otherwise
> only as a loan from a substrate language of people connected with
> amber-mining.

I suspect Gibbons "Chlonix" is not an authentic name at all. The only
Bastarnian names I've been able to verify are the supposedly royal names
<Clondicus>, <Cotto> (both in Livy) and <Déldo:n> (in Diodorus). For
details, see eg.

http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/RE:Bastarnae

Piotr