Re: [tied] Re: PIE e: > Gmc a:

I fail to see how this is any objection to the notion that *e:1 already had
a clear lowness assignment in all proto-dialects by this time. Am I merely
being absent-minded? Quite possibly, seeing as I've confused slashes and
brackets in my first reply.

Dagfinn

>Oh, and wouldn't I ;-) This is difficult with a sword of Damocles
>over my head, but this is what I think happened: The Tungrian dialect
>(Swebia, Hermundurian) moved to Denmark (and then Sweden and the
>coasts of Finland and Estonia) from Thuringia in 9 BCE when Drusus
>pushed forward the frontiers of Rome to the river Elbe; thus there
>was a dicontinuity in Scandinavia at that time, thus no continuu and
>no borrowing of single items.
>
>Torsten
>
>

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