MOESAN
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- Brittany
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- more celtic
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- R1b - L21/S145*
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- H3c
How many settlement names in the US have either Latin names or names originally given by displaced natives and how many personal names come from Latin?
So if Celtic culture was much more advanced when the Teutonics first made contact and they took some settlements off Celts after they'd got used to calling it by the original Celtic name then maybe the same things happened?
(I'd guess this is only likely to happen in the border zone between the two cultures.)
same answer as to EPOCH: you're comparing things of very different times too simplisticly I think -
the settlements in the USA were made in a time when a lot of people knew read and write, someones having a good taste of general culture and so some snobism (concerning Latin or not english european placenames) - concerning the placenames in Belgia, you can say the Germanics kept these names and I agree, but these names at this time were not given by snobism but inherited from previous Celtic tribes, it's not the same thing - SO THE QUESTION REMAINS: WERE THERE ALREADY GERMANIC TRIBES IN OLD BELGIA AT ROMAN TIMES? KEEP IN MIND THE ANGLO-SAXON FIRST EMIGRANTS DIDN'T TAKE INDIAN NAMES TO GIVE TO THEIR CHILDREN EVEN IF THEY RETAINED INDIAN PLACENAMES...
I wrote about all this stuff because someones (not you precisely) appeared to me as pretending there never has been genuine Celtic tribes in Central-Northern Germany, what is wrong - other people are restless rewriting History I find that boring sometimes: classical History is rather to be precised and corrected, not denied 100%