Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas")

On 2009-07-27 00:39, george knysh wrote:

> On the other hand if the Slavic and Baltic terms are borrowings from
> Germanic, this would imply a time before the Grimm shift. Is that why
> you are partial to Semitic (:=))?****

Had it been borrowed before the operation of Grimm's Law, we would have
Baltic and Slavic *g at the end of the root. Neither Baltic nor early
Slavic had an /f/ phoneme, so the substitution /f/ -> /p/ in a loan is
normal and expected (as in Old Polish personal names of foreign origin
like Szczepan 'Stephen', Pabian 'Fabian', etc.).

Piotr