Re: PIE e: > Gmc a:

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Dagfinn Hobaek"
<captain_yossarian@...> wrote:

> The intention was to remove the necessity of *e:1 > *a: as a post-

CommonGmc.

> (i.e. post-continuum) 'borrowing' between by then differentiated

dialects

> (some having developed *a: < *e:1, others not), a notion which I

believe was

> entertained in the original posting. If I am mistaken, please

continue to

> correct me. ;)
>
> Dagfinn
>

Oh, and wouldn't I ;-) This is difficult with a sword of Damocles
over my head, but this is what I think happened: The Tungrian dialect
(Swebia, Hermundurian) moved to Denmark (and then Sweden and the
coasts of Finland and Estonia) from Thuringia in 9 BCE when Drusus
pushed forward the frontiers of Rome to the river Elbe; thus there
was a dicontinuity in Scandinavia at that time, thus no continuu and
no borrowing of single items.

Torsten