Neue Erkenntnisse und Hypothesen über die Germanenstellen bei Caesar und Tacitus

Some new etymological findings on ancient names prove that ( at least) the eastern part of the Southern Low Countries was already linguistically Germanicised by the time Julius Caesar conquered Gaul. The strongest piece of evidence is the tribal name Caerosi (not Caeroesi) in Caesar's De Bello Gallico, being the oldest ancestor of German Herr. The new findings shed an new light on the notorious name sentence in Tacitus' Germania. It appears that the name Germani applied first to an organized group of tri bes which in the last prehistorie century occupied the territory of what was later called the Civitas Tungrorum. The designation Germani was extended deliberately from there to the entirety of the Transrhenan peoples to deter the Gauls. Finally, the hypothesis is set out that already previously, Trans-(