17-10-03 18:52, Egijus wrote:
> So, Albanian, Romanian, Germanic and Baltic languages are more
> related to early Slavic than modern Slavic languages are?
No, you just have no idea how to interpret linguistic data. An earely
loanword in an external language will often appear more similar to the
protolanguage form than reflexes of the same word in languages descended
from the donor language. Finnish <kuningas> and Lith. <kunigas> (both
borrowed from Germanic) are more similar to PGmc. *kuningaz than the
modern Germanic reflexes (<king>, <König>, <kung>, etc.). That doesn't
mean that Lithuanian and Finnish are more Germanic than English, German
or Swedish. Similarity and relatedness are two different things.
Piotr