Men from the Dinaric Alps may be taller than Dutchmen on average, but in the Netherlands themselves there are regional height differences, with Northerners being taller than Southerners.
So before men from the Dinaric Alps be proclaimed as tallest, they should be compared to Northern Dutchmen...
Alright, I decided to delve into my Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic to check my statement that "the Celtic languages didn't have names/words beginning with /sw-/." I was wrong. Proto-Celtic, like Proto-Germanic, retained the Proto-Indo-European /sw-/ at the beginning of words, although...
Apparently my formatting got lost in the process of posting. Since I am not allowed to edit my posts, I ask the reader to assume new paragraphs where they are due.
Interesting article! (And great work on your site by the way!)
Please allow me to offer some critical remarks.
Linguistically speaking, Suebi is an unmistakably Germanic name. As far as I know the Celtic languages didn't have names/words beginning with /sw-/. The name is a latinisation of...
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