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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> But note also that although there is plenty of evidence for Germani
> under Hunnic command, and Priscus mentions Hunnic was used along
with
> Gothic as a lingua Franca, there are no (officially recognized)
> Hunnic loan words in Germanic (they would be Turkic, and closest to
> Chuvasic), and, until recently, no archaeological remains of the
> Huns' stay in Europe had been found.
One more possible argument: the time of Proto-Germanic, and therefore
of the split into West, North and East Germanic is usually set
somewhere between 1 BCE and 1 CE. And in my scenario "the Woxdan
priest" left Thuringia in the final decades of the 1st century BCE
pressured by Roman conquest in the vicinity, leaving his Thuringians
to fend for themselves (which they did rather badly against the
Saxons soon after, says the Thuringian Chronicle, which is why there
are no "-leben" names between Thuringia and Denmark).
And Proto-Germanic also bears the hallmark of a (camp?) creole:
serious reduction of paradigms; all past tenses, except for the
perfects of a few (strong, irregular) verbs have been wiped out and
replaced with new forms based on periphrasis (cf. the fate of nominal
inflection in Bulgarian under Turkic rule).
Torsten