Re: Lusitanian --Bell Beaker?

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

>
> > I remember on another list, substrate list, I
> think,
> > someone referred to IE elements in a substrate of
> > Pyrenees Ibero-Romance.
> > There are IE looking elements in Basque that are
> > non-Celtic, non-Latin/Romance. Some of them also
> seem
> > to show up in Sardinian, which suggests they may
> be
> > related to Lusitanian.
>
> Many of those IE loans in Basque Trask meant were
> from Latin have -a-,
> as if from the 'mot populaire' layer of Latin.

Yes, but there are others that can't be Latin, twisted
or not: urki "birch", abarka "bast sandals, originally
bast". Trask saw these as coincidence.

> A high proportion of those words Gol/ab proposes as
> common to Italic
> and Slavic have -a-.
> Krahe's Alteuropäisch had the 'aquales -a-'.
> Marsian might have had -a- it if I'm right about
> Tamfana <
> *Dem(s)-po(t)-na.
> Torsten
>

So, are you saying they're substrate or just
vocabulary in common?