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

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> >
> > GK: Is there any term in the Germanic
> languages
> > which can be proved to be a loan from Iranian
> PRIOR to
> > the "Grimm" sound shift?
>
> *paT- is the only example I can think of, which BTW
> is generally
> acknowledged as such.

****GK: I don't understand. If *paT- was a pre-Grimm
loan from Iranian, then why didn't it undergo the
shift?****

> 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.

****GK: What "collapsing army"? What "flow of
refugees"? Are we by any chance back to the Odin
carcass here?****




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