Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> > >It would be necessary in the first place to be sure that Huns are
> > >not just Germanic or para-Germanic.
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> >> Arnaud
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> >That's a dumb thing to say. Look at Ket and compare it to Germanic.
> >Torsten
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> Yes but
> in your hypothesis that Germanic became Germanic because it was
> adopted by non originally Germanic speakers, How do you know what
> survived and what was discarded from the previous n-1 stage ?

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I think a large part of the
geminated words in Germanic are foreign, and a large part of them
Chattic, ie. NWBlock. So: language of the geminates, words that have
shifted cognates within Germanic (kring-/hring-), words with -p-,
words of the shape T1VT2-, for any unvoiced stops T1, T2 (kop-, pit-
etc), as a subclass of all that verbs in -pp-/-mp-/-p- etc.


Torsten