From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54036
Date: 2008-02-23
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From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:23 AM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Paleo-Germanic lexical borrowings in
Saami&Finnic, correction
In short, I think the Germanic language is a product of the Przeworsk
or Oder-Warthe group. Whatever contact existed between Germanic and
Fennic pre-Grimm, ie loans with substitutions of supposed 'Gmc.'
fricative with Finn. plosive (actually with no substitution, but
direct loan of Proto-Proto-Germ. plosive as Fennic plosive), must have
taken place there or further east. And given that one can argue for a
Fennic substrate for all of Balto-Slavic, not just for Russian,
perhaps that's not so impossible.
Torsten
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I don't think a Fennic *substrate* in Balto-slavic
makes any sense.
You're putting everything upside down.
Arnaud
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