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

From: george knysh
Message: 64465
Date: 2009-07-29

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:




Slavic *pUlkU definitely looks like Germanic *fulkaz borrowed through
the usual phonological filters (an inherited syllabic /l/ would have
been much more likely to vocalise as *Il). Lith. pu~lkas and Latv.
pu`lks are loans via old East Slavic rather than directly from Germanic.

****GK: And is *fulkaz also inherited or does the Semitic loan notion have some credibility? ****