Re: [tied] Water, LBK

On 2006-03-28 14:28, tgpedersen wrote:

> The question is: if *akW-/*ap- "water" is a loan in IE, did it come
> from a substrate, and if yes, which one. The answer is (ta-dah!) LBK,
> Linearbandkeramik.

I'm inclined to believe that the bearers of the LBK culture were PIE (or
pre-PIE)-speaking. Their rapid expansion would account for the thorough
IE-isation of central and western inland Europe, and the environment in
which they lived fits the findings of IE "linguistic palaeontology".

BTW

> "Some LBK sites are known beyond the loess in central and north-east
> Poland..."

This requires a correction: central (pretty far towards the north) and
_northwestern_ Poland (the area of Szczecin).

Piotr