Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>xkl.com writes

>I can't disagree with this.  But as early as @600 ace Fredegar has the Frank
>king Dagobert remitting a 500 hide tribute owed by the Saxons in exchange
>for  their defending the border against the Wends

-- that's what I said, east of the Germans, south of the Balts, west of the
Iranians.

The linguistic frontier between Germanic and Slavic fluctuated, just as that
between Slavic and Baltic and Slavic and Iranian did.  But their relative
positions never changed much, and neither did the fact that they were in
continuous contact from PIE times on.