Re: Galindae

It can be that Laeti were ancestors of Lithuanians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei%C4%8Diai

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> As for laeti
> http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64909
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German
> has no mandatory prefix *ga- -> ge- as standard (High) German does.
>
> BTW, I wonder if those characteristics that separate High German from all the other Germanic languages, might be due to Bastarnian influence (after they were driven from Poieneşti-Lukaševka into Przeworsk by Burebista).
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> Possibly also in
> de Vries
> 'latr adj. "lazy, lax",
> Icel. Faroese latur, Norw. Sw. lat, Da. lad.
> - Gothic lats, ae. læt, afr. let, as. lat, ahd. laz.
> - Latin lassus "tired".
> - cf. lata, láta, leti, letja, lo,skr und lo,t.'
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> and several related words.
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> Torsten
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