the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Stanley Friesen]

At 06:09 PM 2/8/00 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>Important point, I think.  Since Germanic and Balto-Slavic (as
>far as they're traceable to the "Corded Ware" cultural area) both
>developed on a TRB substrate (c.q. out of a TRB substrate), it is
>strange that none of the Germanic substrate words appear in
>Balto-Slavic.

I am not sure about this - I seem to recall a moderate number of entries in
Pokorny that are only attested in Germanic and Balto-Slavic.  Those sound
like good candidates for substrate words to me.

[Though I actually question tracing B-S back to Corded Ware].

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