Re: Hessen

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:
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> > > Equating the medieval and modern Hessen with Tacitus's Chatti involves three phonological problems. The latter presumably represents Germanic *Xatto:z, which has the wrong declension, the wrong internal consonantism, and nothing to umlaut the /a/. If Tacitus had actually known about any ancient Hessen, and their name was native, his term should have been *Chationes.
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> > There are many problems w what you wrote. First, see:
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> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36534

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> I do not find this explanation convincing. It requires a tribe to give up its native name in favor of a clumsily Latinized form of the name.

Like Italy? Or Germany? Or Spain? Nothing unusual is needed.