From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57916
Date: 2008-04-24
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> I will add that the word *sajwa "sea" displays -wa- Erweiterung
> This Erweiterung exists in Germanic, KArtvelian (zGva), Chinese
> (cuo2), Tibetan (chwa).
> I can't help thinking this tells us something about Germanic.
>
> There *always* is some strange feature about Germanic that relates
> it to Kartvelian or Eastern languages like Yenissei, Uralic,
> Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, etc.
> There is no smoke without fire.
> And there is a lot of smoke, not just a couple of fuzzy words.
> There must be something about Germanic that explains why these
> oddities exist.
> Non PIE words in Germanic always are Asiatic-look-alikes, that is
> definitely intriguing.
> This does not happen with Latin or Celtic.
>I can't disagree too much. I've proposed myself that the Asir and
>Vanir of Germanic mythology, in Snorri and Saxo's version, were Alans
> (alternative name As) and people from the kingdom of Vani in
>present-day Georgia, the ancient Colchis, and that the suddenly
>emerging upper crust of the Przeworsk culture were deserters from the
>Mithridatic war, thus of rather heterogenous Black Sea extraction. I
>have been forbidden to discuss it, but you can check the archives what
>I have written on those subjects.
>Torsten
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It's always a problem to have a good idea at the wrong moment and to be
right too early.
Maybe, we are on the forum that accepts only discussing things that have
been said one million things before,
otherwise it's just crank science.
Arnaud
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