Re: Nordwestblock, Germani, and Grimm's law

> > > Assuming of course that these are not wanderwords from *Lun,-,
> > > cf the thread in
> > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/10861
> >
> > Occam would puke.
>
> Occam would love me. So much explained from so few entibus! Whatever extra in the sociology/ethnology department has to be accepted would have to be assumed to explain the distribution of *kaN-t-, and further *saxn- (vel sim).
>
> Torsten

Hmmm. It seems you're not counting insufficiently estabilish'd sound laws and propagation pathways as "assumptions"? And you'll need a ton of both to make those complexes work.

(You might even see this yourself if you bothered to chart out each and every step of the developments you propose.)

John Vertical