2012/3/1, Rick McCallister <
gabaroo6958@...>:
> Can you clear up the relationship between Venetic (the ancient language of
> the N. Adriatic), the language of the Veneti farther north in Central Europe
> and NordWestBlock.
> What substrate of ancient Venetic can be found in modern Venetian,
> Slovenian, etc.?
IMHO all ancient Veneti and Venetes were IE tribes with the same
name and no more. Of course they had some lexicon in common, but no
special relationships.
It would be different in the case on NW-Block, but unfortunately
no NWB-etymology is better than traditionally hereditary IE
etymologies of Germanic words, so everything remains just a
possibility. If yes, however, they wouldn't be a residue of an earlier
wider substrate, because the are in between exhibit place-names which
have experimented all sound laws from PIE to Celtic (and no other
sound laws), so there's direct continuity in Central (and Western)
Europe form PIE to Celtic (and all possible words on non-IE origins
have *better* IE-Celtic etymologies).
An ancient Venetic substrate in modern Venetian and Slovenian lies
principally in place-names, e.g. Feltre, Fersil, Fersina, Fodom,
Festornigo and so on. Maybe many place names of supposed Latin origin
are in fact of Venetic origin