Re: Uralic Loanbwords in Germanic (was: * Re: Push (3))

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From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 9:41 PM
Subject: [tied] Uralic Loanbwords in Germanic (was: * Re: Push (3))


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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:
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>> If Proto-Germanic has more Uralic LWs than Balto-Slavic does,
>> What was the position of these sub-families at that time ?
>> Do you seriously think Balto-Slavic originally was more eastern than
>> Germanic but did not receive any LWs ?
>> Your theory is not even coherent.
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> I will pedantically point out that Uralic actually extends further
> West than does Balto-Slavic.
>
> More seriously, Uralic currently borders Germanic on the *North*
> rather than the East. Whether this border was significant for
> Proto-Germanic may be another matter - it doesn't look settled to me.
>
> Richard.
>
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If Germanic has more Uralic LWs than Balto-Slavic,
then the relative position of these free entities cannot be what is now.
And I suppose that only Russian dialects that have been in contact (or have
replaced) Uralic languages have LWS.
I wonder if Polish or Srb has a single known Uralic LW.
It would be interesting to document such a point.

A.