Re: Non-Indo-European in Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao" <josimo70@...> wrote:

> Are some of the putative "Pre-Germanic" substrata in Proto-

Germianic shared with Proto-Baltic, Proto-Slavic or Proto-Celtic?

>

Peter Schrijver identified three substrate languages appearing in
Celtic, Germanic, occasionally Greek, and Finnic.
Check the discussions beginning at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/25720

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/24881
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/24768
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21608
(I just learned that just prior to the Thuringian or Swebian
expansion a Przework groups end up in the Wetterau (near Frankfurt?)
close to the Rhine; unlike the Swebians, these were absorbed by the
local culture.)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/22134
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/22134
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/21865
etc


for some examples from them; unfortunately I have returned the book
to the library.

Torsten