From: george knysh
Message: 64502
Date: 2009-07-31
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
Whatever it is, *folk-/folg- can't be native in Germanic; the isolation in Germanic and Balto-Slavic, the alternating auslaut, the root vowel /o/ all say it must be a loan.
****GK: What about some of the languages that are substrate donors to Germanic (but not to Baltic or Slavic)? BTW I found the notion that both Baltic and Slavic lacked a phoneme "f" originally wildly interesting...Any other language groups in that category>****