Sergei would know more about that. My
impression is that there are very few (if any) such items, at least in East
Baltic (there are words borrowed via Slavic or from mediaeval German dialects,
but that's a different story). What is remarkable, on the other hand, is the
impressive number of lexical correspondences between Balto-Slavic and Germanic,
often extending to Italic and Celtic as well (the so-called North European
vocabulary). Those words are affected by Grimm's Law in Germanic (when
applicable), but not in their Balto-Slavic form (they _are_ affected by
old Balto-Slavic processes such as Winter's Law), so we must date
their spread to a very early period. They suggest the existence of a relatively
stable linguistic area in prehistoric northern Europe, long before the East
Germanic migrations.
Piotr
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Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Satem
*****GK: Something I've wondered about. We know that
there are a number of borrowings from early Germanic in Slavic. Are similar
borrowings ("early Germanic") discernible in the extant Baltic
languages?******