There was an earlier (and presumably still open)
discussion in this forum about whether Germanic
contains as much as 30% non-IE material, or whether
this is an inflated percentage. I remember Mallory
("In search...", 1989) mentioning that perhaps one-
half of the old Greek lexicon could not yet be
confirmed as IE, and that the % was even higher in
Hittite. Has anyone attempted to make similar
estimations with respect to other IE languages, and if
so, what were the results (even if not fully corroborated)?
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