Re: Deutschland vs. Sakartvelo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Przemys³aw Ziobrowski <pmva@...> wrote:

>
> > As Germanic *o >> *a
> > this is more an argument in the favor of my suggestion.
>
> > You mean proto-Kartvelian is better than Georgian to explain *sajwa.
> > I agree with your link.
>
> OK, it looks promising but why should I believe in your promises? :)
>
> First, you should explain why Germanics borrowed words from Colchians,
> Iberians or other Kartvelian peoples and not from some *North* Caucasian
> languages.

I have not studied North Caucasic vis à vis proto Germanic.
As regards the reasons why LWs were possible, I have made no secret I
think Germanic originates in a (eastern) place where LWs from
Kartvelian, Early Uralic and Tibetan are possible.
Arnaud

> Second, you should provide more than one example of *believable*

loanwords

> from Proto-Kartvelian into Common Germanic.

I have suggested :
zoGwa > zGar "sea" > sajwa
zGarbi "hedgehog" > Igel
saxli "house" > sal
daq > tkha "goat" > Ziege

Neolithic words.
Arnaud

>
> >> What happened to the initial [s]~[z] in German?
> >>
> nom. sing. _zGarbi_
> nom. pl. _zGarbebi_
>
> And 'bristle' is _dZagari_ :)
>

Dart is zaG (maybe in North Caucasic)
It can explain such a word as hedgehog.
Arnaud

> You ignored my question ("What happened to the initial..."),

Z is treated either as s or H2
dz seems to be adjusted as d
Arnaud