From: bmscotttg
Message: 68600
Date: 2012-02-23
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@>Not one of those three names represents a tribe giving up its
> wrote:
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
>>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> There are many problems w what you wrote. First, see:
>>> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/36534
>> 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?