From: Torsten
Message: 68680
Date: 2012-03-01
>Why the common name then?
> 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 unfortunatelyThat statement makes me fear that you haven't understood the criteria by which Kuhn identified his NWB words.
> 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 anThat is at odds with what I know. Please cite an example of a place name with competing NWB and Celtic etymologies in NWEurope.
> 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 SlovenianMany (coastal) Slovenian dialects have
> 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