The umlaut of *u reflected as *e in the
fifth century BC (mind you, the <getai> are also mentioned by
Herodotus), probably well before the completion Grimm's shift and several
centuries before anyone in the Graeco-Roman world heard about the Goths? I
don't know who has proposed it, but I'm apalled to learn that those minds
are cleverer than yours. Please, Torsten, flog something else, this horse is
_really_ dead.
Piotr
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Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] "Getisk," said the Get, but nobody did not hear
him.
And umlaut that early has been proposed by cleverer minds than
mine.