Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

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From: george knysh
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Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"



--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> Proto-Germanic can't be from Jastorf
> nor any Western or Northern or CEntral
> European Archeological culture.
>
> It has an Eastern organisation of the verb,
> It does not have the a e i o u vocalism.
> Early archaic words of Uralic origin.
> Kartvelian loanwords etc
>
> Apart from the prejudice that Germanic
> **should** come from Jastorff
> what is the material data that support
> a claim that Jastorf features have moved elsewhere ?
>
> Arnaud
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****GK: This is a well-known and amply documented
fact. We're talking about what occurred in the 4th-2nd
c.BCE We're not talking about earlier epochs.


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Where can I find
ample and well-known documentation
about this *fact* ?

Arnaud

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