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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:
> ... another one of those phonetically difficult "non-IE words"
> found in Germanic.
Which words in Germanic can be traced to a Saamic / Lappish
substratum? It could be that before the IE speakers came, languages
related to Finnish were spoken in all of Scandinavia and into
Schleswig-Holstein and perhaps on the whole of the Baltic coast.