Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate

> > I believe the non-IE Hellenic element is believed to be either
> > Pelasgian (possibly an Eteo-Cretan language?) or Anatolian, and
> > I've only seen Afro-Asiatic, Uralic or Basque proposed as
> > substrates for Germanic.
>
> Add to that
>
> 1) Krahe's IE Old European (plenty literature)
>
> 2) Kuhn's ar-/ur- language, or non-IE NWB (see file section)
>
> 3) Kuhn's IE Nordwestblock language (see archive, plenty)
>
> 4) Peter Schrijver's language of geminates (= 2, in my opinion)
>
> 5) Peter Schrijver's language of bird names (also = 2?)
>
> 6) Venetic (= 3?; archives)

> So where do Apple Language and Folkish fit in?

'Apple' has an a/u ablaut, so 2)

Vennemann gave a convincing Semitic etymology for 'folk'
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48772
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48897

> Give u examples of each and rule, as it were.

What dialect is that? What does it mean?

> This is an important thread and I expect all of you to do your
> duty, either rationally supporting or rationally showing flaws one
> way or another.

Aye, aye.


Torsten