From: dgkilday57
Message: 69793
Date: 2012-06-08
>It looks that way. Artemidorus did say that the Ligurians once ranged all the way to the Northern Ocean. Earlier I attributed this remark to misunderstanding on A.'s part of how far north Worms-am-Rhein is, but perhaps he was spot on.
> 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