Re: Strange words out of place

From: george knysh
Message: 54533
Date: 2008-03-02

--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> The only rivers in *wib- Udolph finds are in Britain
> (not on the map).
> Does that mean the Germani were all over the
> continent when the
> Grimm-shift took place?
>
>
> Torsten


****GK: I'm afraid the evidence of -wib/-wip is too
opaque to draw any firm conclusions one way or the
other (on this basis alone) as to where and when the
Grimm shift began. ****
>
>
>



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