Re: [tied] "Satem" Law

--- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

> Golab's "Origin of the Slavs, a Linguist's
> View" (1991) lists
> 45 old kentum words in Proto-Slavic, many relating
> to cattle
> breeding, wooden constructions, tools, and social
> terms.

*****GK: I don't have Golab(Golonb?) on hand. Is it 45
or 59 (the latter in your message # 20464)?*****

After some

> pages of discussion I couldn't really summarize, he
> concludes:
> "we can hypothesize that the Proto-Slavs seem to
> be the
> descendants of a satemized earlier kentum population
> of the northern
> half of the so-called Tripolye culture. That
> earlier kentum
> population could in its turn represent some
> indoeuropeanized
> descendants of the oldest non-IE ethnic layer of the
> primary
> Tripolye culture."
> Reasonable or unreasonable to our experts?
> Dan

*****GK: What does Golab have to say about the
relationship between Slavic and Baltic? Remember that
"the northern half of the so-called Tripolye culture"
(if he means Sofiivka) disappeared by ca. 2750 BC.
Does Golab contend that Slavic and Baltic were already
separate linguistic branches in the mid-3rd
millennium? As to "indo-europeanized descendants of
the oldest non-IE layer of the primary Tripolye
culture", I very much suspect that they can be found
all over Europe, since much of Trypilia was absorbed
by the earliest CW. Cf. messages # 17097, 17108,
17125.*****


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