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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> I'm curious about how so many Gmc loanwords entered
> before the Swedish invasion of Finland. Was Finland or
> part of Finland populated by Gmc speakers before
> Finnish speakers arrived? I know, it sounds far out,
> but I'm curious.
>
The 'king' word has the same odd distribution (Baltic Finnic,
Germanic, Baltic, Slavic) as the 'ale' and 'thousand' words. I've
argued before that the -inga- suffix is Vasconic (Old European).
I seem to recall that according to archaeology, a new culture arrived
on the shores of Finland 2000 years ago. Some called it the arrival of
the Finns. In my scenario, the Germanic language arrived in
Scandinavia about that time, so it might reflect that arrival. Or it
might have taken place in Eastern Europe?
Come to think of it, the *mari/mori "sea" word has the same odd
distribution (with Italic and Celtic). Were the Finns late arrivals?
Torsten