Re: [tied] Satem

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 12115
Date: 2002-01-22

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
 
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: george knysh
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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?******