From: tgpedersen
Message: 43390
Date: 2006-02-13
>root=leiden&basename=\data\ie\toch
>
>
> --- Petr Hrubis <hrubisp@...> wrote:
>
> >
> > Check this site:
> >
> >
> http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?
> >According to Gimbutas, the Kurgan people came from the east. Is
> > (Put "loan" or "borrow" in the "In any field"
> > textbox
> > and press "enter" - I apologize to tell you what you
> > might know already. ;))
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Petr
>
> *****GK: Thank you very much indeed. For this and the
> prior post. I'll check this out carefully. It sure
> looks (barring something) that proto-Tocharian
> borrowed nothing from known developed IE languages
> other than those already noted. Which suggests that if
> there were other loans, they occurred at a time when
> none of the donor tongues had yet moved very far from
> PIE. Your point about palatalization confirms the
> already well-known non-participation of Toch. in the
> satemization process. It intimates even if it does not
> prove that proto-Toch. probably remained isolated in
> the East for aeons before the activization of the
> ultimate great silk road. They were somewhere "beyond"
> the Herodotan "griffons". And they left the "homeland"
> even before the constitution of the
> Indo-Iranian-Nuristani complex. Thus before the late
> IVth mill. BC...The IIN "drang nach osten" was thus
> preceded by other such. Nothing new here. Just
> reconfirming for my purposes (:=)))*******
>