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

From: Joao
Message: 29000
Date: 2004-01-01

Does this seems to point that Germanic in Scandinavia is older than Saami?
And if Saami original language was not Uralic?
 
For example, what would be the origin of Germanic *selXaz "seal" ? Can it be related to Greek selakHos "shark" ? Or does this word come a Pre-Germanic substratum?
 
Joao SL
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 8:24 PM
Subject: 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



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