Talk:Semois

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Ethymology of the name.[edit]

As Roman name of the river, "Sesmara" is delivered. The Romans conquered that Celtic region, before the first Germanic tribes arrived there. In general, names of rivers are among the most conservatively preserved names. Thus I doubt a German origin of the name Semois. I suspect, that in any source it was called Indogermanic, but Indogermanic is, in nationalist tradition, a German word for Indoeuropean. --Ulamm (talk) 23:23, 14 February 2009 (UTC) Furthermore look at the Germanic versus Latin meanings of the elements of Sasmara:[reply]

Latin: "saxum" = rock & "mare" = sea
Germanic: "sax" = a kind of a sword (the Saxons wer called after it) & "mar" = horse ("marshall", from "mar" = horse & "shalk" = servant, was the keeper of the royal horses)--Ulamm (talk) 13:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]