Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 29284
Date: 2004-01-09

Michael:
>So Glen, do you think that we can't really differentiate whether the
>northern and western (including Celtic and Germanic) substrate was
>Semitic or Berber or any other Afro-Asiatic language(s) for that
>matter? Can any non-Indo-European Germanic and Celtic words be shown
>to have a Semitic or other Afro-Asiatic etymology?

Well, like I said, there seem to be words in Basque that show some
Semitic connections as strange as it sounds. I don't know about anything
uniquely Semitic in Gemanic and Celtic that wasn't already inherited from
IE. Anyone else have suggestions?


>by the way, I don't drink anymore, I take ritalin!

But Ritalin takes the fun out of it!


= gLeN

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