IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Hans Holm]

>It has some substrate influence from Celtic, and some loan-words; ditto
>from Frankish.

.. the history of French is by far not such simple. Our time and the space
in the list would not be sufficient to list all the phonoogical and
morphological influences I only could indicate.
Or, regarding lexemes, e.g. a Swadesh-list produced by Rea (1973) of 215
lexemes there are 129 non-cognate between Molière-French and Latin (cited
from Embleton 1986). There exist several more works on this topic.

Regards
Hans J. Holm
D-30629 Hannover