Re: Res: [tied] Reindeer domestication : two orig ins

> > Why would a word for "reindeer" not be a loan in Germanic?
> > According to Tacitus, amber was 'glaesum' in Aestian. If that word
> > is from PIE *gel- "freeze, coagulate" or *g^el- "shine" (probably
> > the same root *g^el- anyway), Aestian did not have initial stress,
> > nor did the language(s) from which *xraina- and *xrinþiz- ~
> > *xrunðiz- were borrowed.


> So you're thinking Baltic? What would *krainaz yield in Baltic, then?
>

Either Okulicz or Gol/a,b or both, I forgot which, convinced me that
the Balts are late-comers to the Baltic, where they replaced the
Veneti and the Aestians, which latter two cultures have
similarly-named rivers which means that if they had separate
languages, then at an earlier time.


Torsten