Re: Uralic Loanbwords in Germanic (was: * Re: Push (3))

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62487
Date: 2009-01-13

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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>

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>>
>> If Germanic has more Uralic LWs than Balto-Slavic,
>> then the relative position of these free entities cannot be
>> what is now.
>> And I suppose that only Russian dialects that have been in
>> contact (or have
>> replaced) Uralic languages have LWS.
>> I wonder if Polish or Srb has a single known Uralic LW.
>> It would be interesting to document such a point.
>>
>> A.
>
> It would be more prudent to look at Baltic, since Baltic was once between
> Uralic and Slavic. Remember that Baltic once spread as far as Moscow to
> the east and somewhere between Gdansk and Szczecin to the west, if not
> farther
>
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Yes,
So it seems that neither Germanic nor Uralic used to be around that area.

A.