Norse shares *skalm "boat" with
Tokharian,
so we might expect the (to-become) Northern
Branch
to be more eastern.
Some loanwords are common proto-Germanic
:
Back Cf. Chinese
S-kip Cf. Vogul kaap or
haap
reidh "to ride" Cf. Tibetan rta
horse
drit "dirt" CF. Tibetan
drag-pa
bill "beak" Cf. Chinese bi4 < *bat-
bud Cf. Chinese bei4 <*bu
English displays the highest number of Tibetan
loanwords :
pig Cf. phag
bird Cf. bya <
*brad
As you can see, Germanic consistently displays *i
in all these words where *a existed.
This can't be a random phenomenon.
I found more Tibetan words in English
probably because I have studied it more
thoroughly
so I will make no conclusions from
this.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 2:14
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Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied]
Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian
--- In cybalist@... s.com,
"fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@ ...>
wrote:
>
>
They lived to the east of Indic and Iranian people
> in the western
Siberian steppic southern Ob hydrographic basin.
Aha. Where did the
English-speakers live and where the German-speakers?
Torsten
PS
Were there no Danish-speakers on the Western Siberian steppe? Now
I'm
insulted.