Re: Germanic - Balto-Slavic connections?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> I wonder in how far there is a Germanic Balto-Slavic or more a
> Germanic-Slavic connection.

I've no opinion about the matter, but some of the comparisons are
questionable:

> essen-edem,

Also Baltic.

> nichts-nits,

germ. _nichts_ is a compound of *ne and a word meaning 'thing' (e.g.
Dutch _wicht_ 'girl', now that we're on the subject of sexist use of
language).

> nein-niet,

Russian _net_ is not Slavic (but lots of people think that anything
Russian can be extrapolated to Slavic, for some reason), but an
innovation consisting of the negated third person present plus a word
meaning 'here'.


And still there is something in it!


W.