From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61995
Date: 2008-12-09
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
I collected what I could of suspicious-looking pairs of Gmc. words of
similar meaning assuming an alternation w-/g- and j-/g- between a
substrate and Gmc proper. First it should be mentioned
1) NGmc has 'Verschärfung' *-ww- > -gw- and *-jj- > *-gj-,
Gothic has 'Verschärfung' *-ww- > -gw- and *-jj- > *-dj-
2) the Romance languages rendered Gmc w- as gw-.
I've supplemented with Latin, many of the words have root vowel /a/
and match similar words in /a/ in Latin
de Vries
[...]
Note the frequent connections to Finnish.
Torsten
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Dear specialist of Caduceous-leaved Tree-forest Nephelococcygian,
May I suggest you focus on words :
- that have v /g alternations
- that are Germanic, preferably of dubious IE origin
- that have no connections outside Germanic within IE (Be it thu borrowing)
Then we could see if Uralic makes sense as a source.
I think you need to discriminate thinner.
Best
Arnaud