Dear list members, In a discussion elsewhere lately, we considered the impression that Indian civilization has suffered a decline over the centuries. One...
Since I may have been spreading general pessimism by my easily parallelizable views on the causes of the end of the classical civilization and the onset of the...
I had this idea. Then I had another one. More often than not my ideas are crap, but still: There are two Norwegian rivers 'Lågen' < ON <lögr> < *lagú- (with...
The "hu-/du-" opposition meaning "good/bad"; appears in a number of compounds. Most of the time, these compounds are appended with š - as in "hušiti-", "good...
Article Nature 461, 489-494 (24 September 2009) | doi:10.1038/nature08365; Received 21 April 2009; Accepted 5 August 2009 Reconstructing Indian population...
Check out http://tinyurl.com/lhxld7 pp. 11-14 on Frankish origins. I think it is remarkable that all the armies on the border to Germania rebelled at the death...
I think PIE *kentom (PIE kantom?) is *kent-om (PPIE *kant-om?) either gpl. "of flocks" or adverbially "flock-wise", having to do with military organization ...
This feels slightly OT, I add this interesting discussion in order to show the general climate on the topic of deification in the first century BCE and CE: ...
Here are the main conclusions in S. Yatsenko's article about Sarmatian gakks on Germanic spearheads. He notes that so far 12 such spearheads (with 23...
Dear Members, We are happy to announce the new issue of the Journal devoted to comparative and historical linguistics, and the history of human language. The...
... http://jam.nyirbone .hu/rendez/ barbar/resume/ Dobrzans. html Torsten ****GK: They've been writing about this one since the 1940's. To no avail, as...
Dear Cybalisters, What follows is a posting sent to me from another list a few days ago. Any comments would be highly appreciated (especially regarding the ...
Clicked on the wrong button before the message was complete. Sorry! ... Which puts a somewhat different slant on Tacitus' famous passage in the "Germania"; ch....
Google cache image of the inaccessible http://www.mnuai.ro/docs/apulum/articole/1.fetisov.pdf pp. 299-314 Al. Fetisov, Irina Galkova The `Rurikid Sign' from...
First of all this: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/scheidel/050704.pdf Cf. especially the text to footnote 48. Then have a look at Strabo (Book 11,...
Latin <digitus> 'finger, toe' and Germanic *taik- (represented by English <token> and <teach>) are commonly referred to PIE *deik^- 'to show', with one ad-hoc...
Tacitus Annales 12,29 '... Vannius's own native force was infantry, and his cavalry was from the Iazyges of Sarmatia... ' Vannius ruled the Quadi (Coldui)...
More Shchukin: In 1969 J. Tejral restudied the Czech materials of K. Motykowa together with materials from Moravia, Slovakia and Southern Germany. He...
Koryakova/Epimakov The Urals and Western Siberia in the Bronze and Iron ages pp. 326-333 'SOCIAL STRATEGIES IN THE IRON AGE The transition to the wide use of...
taks. is a word used in the R.gveda to express creative skills. Is it possible to relate this root to Greco-Roman technos or Lithuanian tasyati or Slavic...
R. Brzezinski & M. Mielczarek The Sarmatians 600 BC - AD 450 p. 39 'Some Sarmatian standard heads may have represented the legendary Iranian senmurv -...
As most of you realize I have no expertise in historical linguistics but much curiosity! Since early Indo-Europeans had no astronomy expertise, but Harappans...
... ****GK: Which was also "like the British"? I.e. a form of Celtic by then? OTOH what if "Venedic" (Baltic and in the interior) was a language exhibiting...
