Re: Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

> 1. There are several loanwords from KArtvelian in Germanic,
> as in Balto-Slavic and western Uralic,
> and these words show no signs of having reached Germanic
> through another language before.
> So the "orignal" position in Scandinavia is a problem.

> like back = Cantonese baak

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Arnaud
As regards Germanic *bak-am "back"
Proto-Nakh has buq "back"
starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=\data\cauc\caucet&first=161
So maybe Caucasus is the place to look for the origin of *bak-.
It is less far away than China.
Arnaud