Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "Germanic"

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From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

>> and what are "other languages"?
>
>Languages other that Germanic.

If the "language of geminates" was a substrate of Germanic,
we wouldn't expect "these stems" to appear in other
languages (and certainly not in ungeminated shape). If the
"language of geminates" is Germanic, we would expect "these
stems" (without the gemination) to appear in other
Indo-European languages (because inherited from PIE).

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There is also a more complex possibility
that there is actually a substrate
(which I think is Celtic)
and that Germanic borrowed words with geminates
because it also had created other words with geminates
on its own.

Arnaud
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