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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tukuler: [QB] Graves says 1. Garamantes are of Cushite and Berber ancestry 2. Garamantes were subdued by the Lemta in the 2nd century 3. Garamantes later moved to the Upper Niger river 4. Garamantes married with and learned the language of the people there His etymology of Gara-man-te as "Gara's state people" echoes they were named after their polity, i.e., Garama -- Gara state -- and that te is an appended suffix. So, I don't know, Graves doesn't indicate which language he relied on to yield that breakdown. The Greco-Latin word Garamas is closer to the actual name those people used for their 2nd capital city Garama/Jarma with an appended [i]s[/i] common to many Greek nouns. The Greco-Latin word Garamante comes from the native name for the later capital city Garama/ Jerma. The [i]nte[/i] is apparently a Latin suffix tacked onto the ethnic name of various Saharan Africa peoples. It appears the Garama never called themselves the Garamante. We just have Garama/Djerma as names used in the region itself. Greek mythology gives them an eponymous ancestor Garamas. The Greeks say that Libyans claimed Garamas to be the first human to issue from Gaea. All this being so, the word Garamante seems to be made up of Garama + [i]nte[/i]. The nte part doesn't seem to be from those people themselves and thus may not be African in source. [QUOTE][i] Garamantes populi Africae prope Cyrenas inhabitantes, a Garamante rege Apollinis filio nominati, qui ibi ex [URL=http://underscore]suo nomine Garama[/URL] oppidum condidit.[/i] [b] Isidori Hispalensis Episcopi[/b][i] Etymologiarum sive Originum[/i] 9.2.125 [/QUOTE]The Garama in the above citation is the guy who's mum was Akakallis not the one who was born of sleeping Gaea. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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