Iberia

[proto-language]

Dear Richard and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Coates" <richardc at cogs.susx.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 3:26 AM

> Further to Larry Trask's posting about this name: it should not be
> ignored that it very closely resembles (at least the nominative form
> of) the native name for Ireland, reconstructable as *_i:werjo:_, and
> latinized as _(h)ibernia_ with /n/ imported from oblique case-forms.

[PR]
To me, this is utterly fascinating.

Could you give the source and more of the argument for this reconstruction?

Pat

PATRICK C. RYAN | PROTO-LANGUAGE at email.msn.com (501) 227-9947 * 9115 W. 34th
St. Little Rock, AR 72204-4441 USA WEBPAGES: PROTO-LANGUAGE:
http://www.geocities.com/proto-language/ and PROTO-RELIGION:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit
ec at ec hecc, vindga meipi a netr allar nmo, geiri vnda~r . . . a ~eim
mei~i, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rstom renn." (Havamal 138)