Re: Nordwestblock, Germani, and Grimm's law

From: Torsten
Message: 65697
Date: 2010-01-19

> NWB seems Para- a lot of things, just like Lusitanian seems "Para-
> Celtic" and/or "Para-Italic" -- and it could well be something
> related to Lusitanian that acquired a lot of Germanic influence.
> Perhaps it was a related Italoid language that went north instead of
> west c. 1000 BCE.

The West German names in 'Wendisch' Kuhn collected seem to point in that direction. Perhaps they correspond to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnfield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusatian_culture


Torsten