Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I think the Grimm-shift in the expanding
> Germanic
> > > was a shibboleth
> > > against their para-Germanic cousins, possibly
> > > inspired by originally
> > > Iranian-speakers among them.
> >
> > ****GK: Abayev ("Skifo-yevropeiskie izoglossi",
> > Moscow: Nauka, 1965, pp. 131-133) suggests the
> reverse
> > relationship, viz., that under centuries-long
> Germanic
> > influence on its Iranic neighbours, Ossetian
> > eventually partially participated in the consonant
> > shift (e.g. p->f).****
>
> BTW Abayev's A Grammatical Sketch of Ossetic (tr.
> from Russian) shows
> Chattic nature of Ossetic (just kidding):
> (Ossetic has glottalized consonants p', t', k', c',
> c^' of the
> standard Caucasian type, so written below.)

****GK: I have a recent book on the Black Sea Gothic
empire (ca.230->370) and Hunnic Gothia (->430). One of
the interesting points it makes (on the basis of
archaeological objects) is that this "Gothia" of the
3rd-4th cs. was a sort of magnet for Western
Germanics,attracting many settlers from various areas
of the then Germanic world ( a sort of "Germanic"
Rome...)*****


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