Re: [tied] Re: Germanic - Balto-Slavic connections?

pielewe wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
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>> I wonder in how far there is a Germanic Balto-Slavic or more a
>> Germanic-Slavic connection.
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> I've no opinion about the matter, but some of the comparisons are
> questionable:

of course they are. I just gave some example of words known to me ,
words
which looks phoneticaly appropiate.

>> nichts-nits,
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> 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).
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>> nein-niet,
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> 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'.

well, German "nicht" has the dialectal variant "net" as well. Taking a
look at he example gave by Aegius in Lithuanian, I will say that on the
first view the phonetical corespondances appear more appropiate between
German words and Slavic words as Lithuanian words:
milch-mleko-melzh(); arbeit-rabota-darbas; nicht( dialectaly
"net")-niet-ne.
It appears interesting to see if there are some paths which will show
the kind of interaction/interloan in this "dreier-Beziehung"(Germanic,
Slavic, Baltic) as well as the period of time.

Alex




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