Re: Interpreting some Scythian names

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, markodegard@... wrote:

>
> Piotr Gasiorowski
> > The best starting point, I suppose, is to assume
> > that East Baltic, West Baltic and Slavic are three
> > roughly coordinate daughters of Proto-Balto-Slavic
>
> Martin Huld holds this view, as I recall.
>
> I also remember reading someplace that certain Lithuanian dialects
> should be understood to have a heavy West Baltic substratum.
>

Yes, Zhemaitian (Samogitian) dialect have West Baltic substratum,
especially Zhemaichiai Dounininkai dialect (Telshiai and Skuodas towns
in North West of Lithuania). Also, Latvian language have very much of
West Baltic substratum. It is so, because Curonians and even maybe
Semigalians were West Balts.