--- Sergejus Tarasovas <
S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:
> On (a). If by Slavic forms you mean /.../
king-words, they are a normal development of
> *kUnIngU, which is in turn
> borrowed most likely from Proto-Germanic.
*****GK: In that case we are looking at a time frame
prior to 200 AD. This would fit in well with the
notion that the term was brought eastward by the
carriers of the so-called East Pomeranian/Yastorf
cultures, and thus before the Goths. This would be
new, since most of the literature still associates the
borrowing with the Gothic expansion. I wonder if there
is any way of deciding whether Finns, Balts and Slavs
all borrowed the term more or less
simultaneously.*****
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