Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

On 2007-01-29 18:02, tgpedersen wrote:

> The dearth of Iranian loanwords in Germanic is an embarrassment to my
> idea. On the other hand, if there is a connection a flow of refugee of
> officers of all languages from Mithridates' collapsing army they might
> have just picked up a PreGermanic-Iranian lingua franca that had
> developped in the area for several hundred years.

Another almost certain Iranian loan is PGmc. *wurstwa- (n.) 'work' (Av.
v&r&s^tuua-). Unfortunately, it can't be dated with respect to GL.

Piotr