Re: Lusitanian --Bell Beaker?

> I remember on another list, substrate list, I think,
> someone referred to IE elements in a substrate of
> Pyrenees Ibero-Romance.
> There are IE looking elements in Basque that are
> non-Celtic, non-Latin/Romance. Some of them also seem
> to show up in Sardinian, which suggests they may be
> related to Lusitanian.

Many of those IE loans in Basque Trask meant were from Latin have -a-,
as if from the 'mot populaire' layer of Latin.
A high proportion of those words Gol/ab proposes as common to Italic
and Slavic have -a-.
Krahe's Alteuropäisch had the 'aquales -a-'.
Marsian might have had -a- it if I'm right about Tamfana <
*Dem(s)-po(t)-na.


Torsten