Bell Beakers in the Ukraine? and Germanic loanwords in Finno-Ugric

Dear Piotr,

I have 2 particular questions to your message (fragments of interest are made Bold):

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From: Piotr Gąsiorowski

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:57 PM

Subject: [cybalist] Odp: proto-Indo-European geography.

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[4] It all depends on your chronology. If you mean Bronze Age Proto-Germani or Proto-Balto-Slavs, I'd say it's highly unlikely that they lived in splendid isolation. The first really indigenous neolithic culture of Northern Europe, the Funnel Beakers, already covered much of the region, including almost all of modern Poland. The same is true of the later Globular Amphorae; and the Corded Ware complex extended from the Volga to Scandinavia and the Rhine. This testifies to the existence of trading networks and lively contacts even before the advent of the bronze axe. The Bell Beakers of the Bronze Age are found from Iberia to the Ukraine.{1} The languages of Northern Europe (Germanic, Baltic and Slavic) share a lot of vocabulary and display other similarities which are apparently due to areal convergence. There are numerous early loanwords from Iranian in Slavic, from Slavic in Baltic, from Germanic in both, and from Iranian, Baltic and Germanic in Finno-Ugric.{2} The so-called Old European hydronymy is also remarkably uniform. The North European Plain must have been, in some sense, a single cultural area.

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{1} Is it really so, not a mistyping?! Could you point Bell Beakers' settlements or burials on the territory to the East from Hungary? What is age of them?

{2} I'm very interested in information concerning contacts of Finno-Ugric and IE (particularly Germanic) people.

It is possible to divide Finno-Ugric languages into 5 geografical (and apparently genealogical of different rank) subgroups:

(1) Ugric, (2) Permic, (3) Volga, (4) Balto-Finnic and (5) Laponic subbranches.

In which of them can be found Germanic loanwords? I believe it is possible to state when it happened (Eneolithic, Early Bronze, Late Bronze, Iron Age, Viking time or later). Which of Germanic languages (Proto-Germanic, East-Germanic, Hochdeutsch, Africaans etc.) were the sources?

Thank you in advance,

Alexander