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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Thank you for the clarification. Could you clarify further: do you
believe the words you refer to are misplaced Germanic words that
just happen to be hapax'es in Germanic or are they non-Germanic IE?


Torsten