Re: Snorri on "Odin's journey"

From: tgpedersen
Message: 32118
Date: 2004-04-21

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> Kortlandt has
> > recently proposed
> > that Slavic contains loanwords from an otherwise
> > unknown IE language
> > he calls Temematic, which he proposes Slavic must
> > have met and
> > overrun.
>
> *****GK: This is most interesting. Do you have an URL,
> or, barring that, some quotes and examples? =====

I'll be back with a reference.

> Which reminds me. While re-reading Shchukin the other
> day (his essay on Slavic origins) I noticed a
> reference to the following work: F. Braun, Raziskaniia
> v oblasti goto-slavyanskikh otnosheniy, SPB (St.
> Petersburg) 1899, p. 112.= Braun mentions five (5)
> surviving words from the Bastarnian language, two of
> which he thinks can be explained from Germanic, while
> three remain mysterious. Would someone have access to
> this book? (perhaps Alex Stolbov? He's in St
> Petersburg). ******
>

If it's only five words, it might be easier if you listed them here,
with as much comment as you see fit?

Torsten