Re: pottus, Genua, Durantia (was: Bart; was: Ligurian)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

>
> Not within Italy or Gaul proper. I think we should regard Asturia and

surroundings as the Celtic Urheimat,

> where we actually find OEH river-names in Celtic form.
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> > Definitely an interesting idea. It fits into the Gaelic myth of Mil

Espainne. And if you saw P-Celtic as a

> > branch that moved "backwards" into Gaul etc. But Celtic still would

have originally come from farther east.

>
> Paleo-Celtic would indeed have come from farther east, and back-washes

of population are nothing new. I am looking for the area where
Proto-Celtic acquired its distinctive features, which to me is the
Urheimat. I meant to say "Asturias" and vicinity, essentially NW
Iberia, as the Celtic homeland in this working hypothesis.

>

Actually, it looks like you had a Freudian slip, in what the /u/ of
Austria shifted its place and became Asturia.

> The place-name Berganza (Prov. Lugo, Prov. A'lava), with the steep

coastal region Bergantin~os (Prov. La Corun~a), corresponds to the
Norwegian river-name Bergunda, continuing *bHe'rg^H-n.t-ih2 'protecting,
elevated, difficult' vel sim. River- and place-names of the form
*Brigantia (Bregenz, Brienz, Brent, Braint) in my opinion are based on
the root *wreigH- 'to turn, twist, wriggle' (cf. Gallo-Latin <brigantes>
'parasitic worms', Marc. Burd.), not *bHerg^H-.

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What has this to do with OEH?