Re: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian Vowel Collapse (was: IIr 2nd Palatalisa

tgpedersen wrote:

> Germanic, if that's what you mean, is IE. But 30% of the vocabulary
> can't be IE (Piotr the Moderator thinks it's much less, but he
> thinks one should guess the exact figure oneself or one is not a
> good linguist and besides there are at least as many non-IE roots in
> Celtic),...

What I mean is that the checklists of words cited in support of the
thickness of the non-IE substrate in Germanic (e.g. those compiled by
John Hawkins) usually contain a good percentage of items which _are_ of
IE derivation (Eng. east, south, rudder, king, calf, etc.); that's why I
think the figure is exaggerated.

Piotr