From: george knysh
Message: 65699
Date: 2010-01-19
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
Cultural loans (*kanabi- -->
*xanapi-, dialectal Celtic *ri:g- --> *ri:k-), however rough their
dating on independent grounds, make it clear that GL began and ended
during the "Celtic" Iron Age. The emerging current consensus points to
ca. 500-300 BC,
****GK: If one co-ordinates this emerging consensus with archaeological data, one might be looking at developments within the evolving Jastorf culture (begun c. 500 BCE when it firmly contacts with the Celts in Thuringia). The push east and southeast begun after 300 BCE would then, on this consensus, have been a push by Grimm-shifted elements?*****
but it has to be kept in mind that GL took place in
stages, and the devoicing of the *b/*d/*g was the most recent of them
(for reasons discussed on Cybalist in the past).
Piotr