Re: Grimm shift as starting point of "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).
> >
> >Of course we would. That language of geminates substrate is defined
> >by geography, it is a language of NWEurope, it's not a substrate of
> >just one language. And languages other than Germanic don't allow
> >gemination, so they would never be rendered with gemination in those
> >languages.
>
> Celtic and Italic allow consonant gemination, and so does
> Finnic. Only Balto-Slavic is not so fond of it.

True. Latin stuppa.


Torsten