MCLSSAA2 (a name worthy of a Star Trek "Borg") states:
>>It seems that with IE-Semitic relationships we must weed the sheep from
>>among the goats and distinguish genuine IE/Semitic
>>cognates that came down in both languages from Nostratic times, from
>>Semitic words which got into IE via Semitoid spreading at the start of
>>angriculture.
Torsten responds inquisitively:
>True. How?
I guess this is where I come in :) This is what _I'm_ trying to
weed out as everyone knows. I feel that it first requires a better
understanding of earlier stages of IE and how they operated. A
precise and reasonable date is needed for such loans, correlating
possibly with archaelogy, and it must be determined from which
language these loans were introduced into IE (which in itself,
requires far better understanding of the languages surrounding
early IE stages than we do now).
So far, people use cutesy German names like "Wanderwort" to escape
the above questions still waiting to be answered in detail. Those
Germans are very clever, very clever :P
- gLeN
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