Re: [tied] Celtic Jutland

> As I understand it, some linguists recognize about 30% of Germanic
> languages are non-IE words. This substatum must have been the
> aboriginal population the incoming IE peoples found in northern
> Europe.

Yes - and quite a few scholars think that number is completely
exaggerated, and that many of so called substratum words have
perfectly good PIE origins that simply were not recognized as such by
the linguists that favor such a large percentage of non-IE words. I
would tend to agree that the number is way too large.

- Chris Gwinn