Re: 'Dug' from PIE? (was: Rg Veda Older than Sanskrit)

> >
> > > (Yours is a non-solution to the more
> > > general problem anyway: at this point, at least, it's just a
> > > fancy way of saying 'We don't know where this came from'.)
> >
> > No, as far as I'm concerned, Schrijver's 'language of geminates'
> > is the NWBlock language, which I've said several times before.
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> This is all well and good but how did the word get into English?

In general, those words in English which fulfill Kuhn's criteria of
non-Germanicness would come from either

1) the Anglo-Saxon invasion

2) Some non-Celtic substrate formerly spoken in the east of England,
such as Stephen Oppenheimer has proposed

> Anglo-Saxon and Dutch would not have given a final
> /-g/. Scandinavian has been written off by our
> colleagues, so is there anything in Low German? A Hansa word?

I doesn't strike me as a word you'd borrow by trade. Lerchner 'Studien
zum nordwestgermanischen Wortschatz' has nothing closer than an
English/Frisian/Dutch set cognate with English 'dag' "a pendant
pointed portion of anything; one of the pointed or laciniated
divisions made by deeply slashing or cutting the lower margin of a
cloak, gown, or other garment, as was done for ornament in the 15th c."


Torsten