Re: [tied] Re: Non-Indo-European in Germanic

01-01-04 23:04, Anthony Appleyard wrote:

> "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?

Hardly any, as far as I know. It's one of the puzzling aspects of the
putative pre-Germanic substrate that it doesn't seem to have been
Sámi-Finnic.

> 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.

That would please the proponents of "a new look" at Uralic prehistory,
but there's no linguistic evidence known to me that would point in that
direction.

Piotr