Oldest words in English?

[Joseph Salmons]

On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:

>> Ahhhh, the old pre-IE substrate vocabulary issue. There's a whole
>> literature on just 'apple', by Hamp, Huld, D.Q. Adams, and others.
>
> Including Theo Vennemann, whose paper a decade ago "Andromeda and the
> Apples of the Hesperides" is a tour de force.  It's included in the
> compilation "Europa Vasconica - Europa Semitica" is available for
> sampling on google books.

Indeed ... I definitely should have mentioned his paper.
>
> We've discussed this here, back in 2001 if memory serves...ah yes,
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0106A&L=ads-l&D=0#3
>
The only reasonable assumption is that EVERYTHING has been discussed
on this list ...

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org