Re: [tied] Water, LBK

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

>
> On 2006-03-28 14:28, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > The question is: if *akW-/*ap- "water" is a loan in IE, did it

come

> > from a substrate, and if yes, which one. The answer is (ta-dah!)

LBK,

> > Linearbandkeramik.
>
> I'm inclined to believe that the bearers of the LBK culture were

PIE (or

> pre-PIE)-speaking. Their rapid expansion would account for the

thorough

> IE-isation of central and western inland Europe, and the

environment in

> which they lived fits the findings of IE "linguistic

palaeontology".

>

The mixture of *a- and *xa- and the alternation *-kW-/*-p- in the
items and its occurrence in Semitic point to a loan, I think. But it
might have been a loan into a proto-PIE (I assume you mean) language.


Torsten