the Wheel and Dating PIE

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

Stanley Friesen <sarima at friesen.net> wrote:

>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].

G-B-S.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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