Re: Pekkanen on Bastarnae

Am 05.05.2011 19:56, schrieb Rick McCallister:

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> *From:* Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...>
> *To:* cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> *Sent:* Thu, May 5, 2011 1:07:01 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [tied] Re: Pekkanen on Bastarnae
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> Am 05.05.2011 18:43, schrieb george knysh:
> > However, the Scordisci are by some called
> > "Scordistae"; and the Taurisci are called also "Ligurisci"
> > and "Tauristae."
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> huh? Don't tell me that the change/alternance of "sci" to "ste" was
> already made by "some" in the time of Strabo.
> That is really intriguing ..
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> Alex
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> The Ligurians are said to be behind -sc- toponyms in Spain BUT unless,
> Lusitanian was the same language as Ligurian, we're probably dealing
> with a misidentification. The -sc- language in Spasin has been called
> "Ligurian," Illyrian," Sorotaptic" and "Italoid". Lusitanian was most
> likely a Q-Latin language but possibly "Para-Celtic" --a Celtic language
> that branched off before the /p/ was lost.
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yes, it may be. I wonder who was behind "-ste-" derivation in the region
of Thrace, Moesia and so on at that itme... We know who is today there,
since the derivations with -shti/shte are found even today , but I did
not expected to find this alternance in the time of Strabon since the
general acceptance is that the Latin "-sce" became an later "shte". Yet,
we see that this change appears to be older as considered... More
inconvenientely, I read Strabo long, long time ago but it seems I never
paid attention for such kind of aspects as I was reading it.

Alex