From: Anthony Appleyard Message: 28998 Date: 2004-01-01
"studey22" <lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:
> Torsten, what is your opinion as to the origin of the 28% non-Indo-
> European in Germanic? ...
How many of these words can be traced to Saamic / Lappish? Perhaps
there was a time when Saamic or similar was spoken in all Scandinavia
and into Schleswig-Holstein and perhaps all round the Baltic Sea,
before the Indo-Europeans came.