> In principle the possibility of an extra-Gmc.
> relationship at a much earlier date still exists, but as Piotr
> pointed out earlier, a relationship involving unknown sound
> changes in unknown languages is fantasy.
That's not something you can point out, it's a modus operandi which is
the result of a choice. This is how I see it: the assumption that a
word belongs to some substrate Trümmersprache should not be made
unless all other options have been exhausted, and should preferably be
backed up by extra-linguistic arguments for the existence of speakers
of that language. I think that is the case here: the oddly loose
distribution of documented folks named Jute, Eudosii, Eucii etc all
over Europe. Just calling such an assumption a fantasy is a cop-out,
as I see it; the facts are still there and won't go away.
Torsten