Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

> >
> > >
> > > 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?****

Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. It's post-Grimm, obviously. Another
one might be *bast- (Ossetic bætt&n "bind", bast "bound"), cf Bastarnae.


Torsten