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Here are some examples of French-derived English and Scottish surnames, dating from the time of the Norman conquest and the Plantagenet Era: -DISNEY => derived from a Norman family called D'ISIGNY from the village of ISIGNY in Normandy . -CHURCHILL=>Descended from Roger DE COURCIL...

http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.de/2013/04/central-european-bell-beaker-mtdna-88-h.html The unusual rate of haplogroup mtdna H in this central european site reinforce the hypothesis that the Bell Beaker people came from the Iberian Peninsula.

In A Grammar of Proto-Germanic by Winfred P. Lehmann, it is argued that the Germanic language family shares more vocabulary with the Italic family than with the Celtic language family. Concerning the relationship between Venetic language and the Germanic languages, Wikipedia says:

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I've found this interesting video of a recronstructed speech in proto IE. Does it sound like anything living language to you?

When did the separation between Scandinavian and other Germanic languages occur? Has a common Germanic language ever been spoken in Scandinavia (or pre-proto Germanic since it lacked the Grimm's law) ? And which branch of the germanic language during the migration era was closer to the Proto...

I) Corsica , Avignon II) Savoy III) Savoy IV) Corsica, Limousin, Lyon, Creuse (Limousin) V)Languedoc, Touraine (Northwest France) , Limousin,(South West France), Auvergne, Creuse VI) Normandy,Poitou, Brittany, Angoumois (near limousin), Auvergne VII) Angoumois...

We can split the Neolithic of South East Europe in two stages. The first starts in 6850 BC with the Seklo culture in Greece and lead to the foundation of Starcevo (former yougoslavia) and Körös culture (Hungary) . Those very first farmers may have carry the Mediterranean/ Southern admixture...

Is the North European component a legacy of the Hunter gaterers or a genetic input from the Steppe? It is lacking in Ötzi but we now know that as early as 5000 bc, folks in southwest Europe were more "northern" than they are today. Dienekes uses this fact to rule out a steppic homeland of the...

I've noticed a correlation in Europe between predominantly Lutheran countries and countries with strong Atheism rates. According to this link:http://www.infobarrel.com/25_Most_Atheist_Countries_in_the_World, you find 6 Lutheran countries (Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Sweden)...

This map shows high frequencies of this subclade in Southern/Central France as well as in Northern Italy. R1b L51 seems absent from the Balkans and eastern Europe in general (except southern Poland). Also, it is worth mentioning that R1b P312 main subclades(U152, M167,L21) have their highest...

Various studies have been done to estimate the proportion of words of French origin in the English vocabulary. Although the figures differ according to the study, it is always estimated that the proportion of words of French origins is bigger than the proportion of words of "Old English" origin...

I have selected Headlines from various websites around the world that dealt with the popential effects of the defeat of Nicolas Sarkozy on geopolitic and economy: If Nicolas Sarkozy loses French presidency, is Turkey the winner...

I was quite surprised when reading the etymology of the French adjective "joli" that means "pretty" or "cute" on wiktionary, I found this: because I don't see the link between something pretty and a midwinter festival. Hasn't "joli" any cognates in Latin?

I've found this text shows the linguitsic relationships between proto IE and semitic languages and the historical links between Kurgan cultures and West Asian/ Central Asian neolithic cultures. http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifacts/indo-european-urheimat-elst.html The part about the...

I was recently looking at the K12a spreadsheet for the participants of the Dodecad proect and I've noticed that R1b frequencies and the Caucasus admixture are totally unrelated in Northwestern Europe. If the proto IE carrying R1b M269 or R1b L11 really originated around the Black sea area we...

How could we explain the linguistic divide in Belgium? Was Flemish the language of the Salian Franks? If so, I wonder why the Franks of Wallonia kept a romance language. Or maybe the Flemish language was carried by the settlers who repopulated the area in the Carolingian era when the sea level...

What is the origin of R1b P312 and R1b L21 especially in Norway? Did it come during the bronze age or during the Viking age with slaves import from the British isles?

The initial "P" has been lost in Gaulish so instead of "Parisii", we should have "Arisii" in Gaulish. Similar pheneomenon is found in Lusitanian and maybe in the languages of the so called "Nordvestblock" (Benelux and Northwest Germany). This could mean that the Celts were not the first Indo...

The highest diversity for R1b L21 and R1b U152 are found respectively in Northern France and South east France. One might see that those two areas are not consistent with a spread of Proto Italo-Celtic Speakers from Central Europe (czech republic, Bavaria, Austria). South east France is little...