Re: Hercynian (again)

Bhrihskwobhloukstroy:

> But there's no need of steppes. The fact that steppes cultures were
> probably of Proto-Indo-European language cannot in any way dismiss the
> linguistic fact that the Alpine area has been Indo-European from the
> very beginning (at least from the date of neognos-rule, which is
> Common Indo-European)

Whatever you might mean by that, it seems like a detour, since I don't
think there's any reasonable mechanism to get the word into Baltic.

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Trond Engen