Re: Non-Indo-European in Germanic

From: Anthony Appleyard
Message: 28998
Date: 2004-01-01

"studey22" <lookwhoscross-eyednow@...> wrote:
> Torsten, what is your opinion as to the origin of the 28% non-Indo-
> European in Germanic? ...

How many of these words can be traced to Saamic / Lappish? Perhaps
there was a time when Saamic or similar was spoken in all Scandinavia
and into Schleswig-Holstein and perhaps all round the Baltic Sea,
before the Indo-Europeans came.