Re: Bart (was: Ligurian)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 69787
Date: 2012-06-07

W dniu 2012-06-07 03:19, dgkilday57 pisze:

> Thus the river Druantia in Liguria Transalpina (now Durance) can be
> equated with Skt. Dravanti: 'Running (River)' f. from *drew-n.tih2, with
> the same Lig. innov. absent from Celtic. Likewise the smaller rivers
> Drance (*Druantia) in Kt. Wallis, and Durance in De'p. Manche, with
> Drouance in De'p. Calvados, Normandie. That is, Greater Liguria
> stretched across Gaul until it was split by Gaulish invasion and
> expansion from the south (cf. Liv. 5:34).

Would it include today's northeastern Poland and the River Drwe,ca <
*drUvoNtja, one of Torsten's favourites? (no trace of *dreu- in
Balto-Slavic, and absence of Grimm's Law excludes a Germanic intermediary).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drw%C4%99ca

Piotr