Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas")

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- On Fri, 7/31/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> Whatever it is, *folk-/folg- can't be native in Germanic; the isolation in Germanic and Balto-Slavic, the alternating auslaut, the root vowel /o/ all say it must be a loan.
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> ****GK: What about some of the languages that are substrate donors to Germanic (but not to Baltic or Slavic)?

I'm not the right guy to ask, all of my candidates are North European rather than Germanic substrates.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/64432
Actually I don't know if any have been proposed. It is difficult to get a grip on a language transmitted through only one language group. Some of the sea-words might be good candidates, though.

> BTW I found the notion that both Baltic and Slavic lacked a phoneme
> "f" originally wildly interesting...Any other language groups in
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Yes, eg. PIE.


Torsten