Re: IE & Uralic

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51198
Date: 2008-01-11

 
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From: george knysh
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 3:01 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: IE & Uralic

> > GK: The most interesting recent theory is that  of
> > Shchukin. He thinks the Slavs self-constituted ca.
> > 50-250 AD in the East Baltic areas north of the
> > Prypjat' and Desna. One of the thoughts I had in
> this  connection is that the significant so-called
> "Gothic"  words present in Old Common Slavic might have
> actually been the contribution of the Bastarnae (this is
> yet > > unverified).

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As regards Moksha Mordvin,
Loanwords are supposed to be Iranian and Balto-slavic.
But some words look Germanic
such as kardaz "cattle-shed" < *gard-az (such nominative ending kept)
Arnaud
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