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L O W L A N D S - L * 04 October 2006 * Volume 07
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From: 'Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.' [roger.thijs at euro-support.be]
Subject: History

Somehow similar to the Pics, it is not clear what the language of the Belgae
was.

Caesar just wrote that the Gauls, Acquitanians and Belgiae had mutually
different languages.

Marien in "Belgica Antiqua" (Mercatorfonds, 1980) states that it had a
Gallic structure with a pre-Gallic vocabulary.
He illustrates the latter with pre-indo european words as e.g. "are" for
river, as Aare in Switserland, but also "Tamare" (old name for the river
"Demer" in Limburg).

Belgian toponyms, he states, were not composite words as in Gaul (e.g.
Samara-briva; Lug-dunum), but roots with suffixes (as the hydonomic "-are",
"-one", "-ape".): Wis-are, Bribr-one, Gan-ape...

In the decades before Caesar conquered the area, a trend (fashion) emerged
for using Gallic for name-giving: Boduognat (sun of the crow), Ambiorix (the
ritch king), Catuvolcus (rapid in combat).

Any thoughts?

Regards,

Roger

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