[tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>
> Michael:
> >So Glen, do you think that we can't really differentiate whether

the

> >northern and western (including Celtic and Germanic) substrate was
> >Semitic or Berber or any other Afro-Asiatic language(s) for that
> >matter? Can any non-Indo-European Germanic and Celtic words be

shown

> >to have a Semitic or other Afro-Asiatic etymology?
>
> Well, like I said, there seem to be words in Basque that show some
> Semitic connections as strange as it sounds. I don't know about

anything

> uniquely Semitic in Gemanic and Celtic that wasn't already

inherited from

> IE. Anyone else have suggestions?
>

Gothic sibun, _without_ the Sem. fem. -t-.

Torsten