Fw: Re: [tied] Re: Frankish origins

> > Just as with Germanic, plenty of the loans to Finnic are from the
> > inherited Baltic lexicon, so direct contacts between the two are
> > needed (be it in the Baltic region or further east).
>
> No.
>

I should qualify that: plenty of those loans to Finnic are from roots reconstructed to be IE, but with only a North European distribution, eg. olut "bier".


Torsten