Nemetes

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A map of eastern Gaul showing the Nemetes at the right along the Rhine.

The Nemetes E.g. Frederick Kohlrausch "History of Germany. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time". D.Appleton and Company, New York, 1880.[1] were a tribe settled along the Upper Rhine by Ariovistus in the 1st century BC.

Their area of settlement was the

Celtic as the name of its main town Noviomagus meaning novios 'new' and magos 'plain', 'market' (cf. Welsh maes 'field', Old Irish mag 'plain'),[3] as are those of several gods worshipped in their territory, including Nemetona, who is thought to have been their eponymous deity.[4]
Both of these names are taken to be derivations from the Celtic stem nemeto- "sacred grove".[3][4] [5]

In

diocese of Strasbourg.[11] The Nemetes fought alongside the Romans and Vangiones against the Chatti when the latter invaded in 50 AD.[12]

The name of the Nemetes has been suggested, on contestable grounds,

term for Germany and German people in Romanian: nemți/neamț, Hungarian: német(ek) and the Slavic languages (Russian: немцы nyemtsy, Ukrainian: німці nimtsi, Polish: Niemcy, Czech: Němci).[14]

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Notes

  1. ^ p. 40.
  2. ^ Tacitus. Germania 28.
  3. ^ a b Xavier Delamarre (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise. Éditions Errance, p. 233.
  4. ^ a b John T. Koch (2006). Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, p. 1351.
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  6. ^ C. Iulius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, VI:25. Translation based on W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn (1869), cf. Latin text.
  7. ^ George Long. "Mediomatrici", from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
  8. ^ Claudius Ptolemaeus. Geographia, II:8.
  9. ^ George Long. "Rufiniana", from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
  10. ^ In fact, the mistake comes from more modern historians, because Rufiniana cannot be the former name of Rouffach. It is impossible for three reasons : 1 - The ancient forms of this place-name are known as Rubiaco en 662, Rubac 912, Rubiacum 12th. 2 - The end of Rufiniana supposes two suffixes -ini(us?)-ana and Rubiaco has only one -aco. 3 - The first element Ruf- cannot change to [b] into Latin Rub-. On the contrary, the shift from [b] to [p] and finally to [f] (Rubac > *Rupach > Rouffach) is the typical result of the High German consonant shift, that took place a long time after Ptolemy's death.
  11. ^ George Long. "Triboci", from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography.
  12. ^ Tacitus. Annals, XII: 27.
  13. ^ "nêmьcь". Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 15. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1867. (in German)
  14. ^ The Journal of Indo-European studies 1974, v.2 Etymology of the Polish-language word for Germany Archived 2008-04-02 at the Wayback Machine (in Polish)

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