[gothic-l] Re: Ethnicity and religion/runes

[Francisc Czobor]

Hi Dirk,

thank you very much for this very interesting link.
I have already read in other sources about the spreading of
Baltic-type hydronymes in continental Europa, especially on the
territory of today's Germany.
The Germanic-Baltic-Slavic concordances are here also mentioned.
Regarding the Germanic "Urheimat", the northern continental Europe,
mainly Niedersachsen, is suggested based on river- and placenames, but
whithout including Iutland (as I have read in other sources).
What is intriguing me is the fact that there is no pre-Indo-European
element provable ("vorindogermanische Spuren sind nicht nachweisbar").
How could be than explained the non-Indo-European element of the
Common Germanic lexical good (if I remember corectly, up to one third
of the Common-Germanic words are not Indo-European)?
For the non-Indo-Eurpean lexical elements of Germanic, see the
"On-line dictionary of postulated non-IE substrate vocabulary in
the Germanic languages"
(http://www.muw.edu/~rmccalli/subsGerIntro.html).

Francisc

--- In gothic-l at y..., dirk at s... wrote:
> Hi Francisc,
>
> here is the URL to a short summary of a recent study on the
geographic
> origin of Germanic:
>
> http://www.gwdg.de/~uhsw/udolph1.htm
>
> cheers,
>
> Dirk



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