Basque and Germanic

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In a message dated 11/2/2000 6:26:18 PM, proto-language at email.msn.com writes:

<<...how likely his immense group of unattested proto-Romance etyma are as a
source for Basque, which, evidently never met a foreign word it did not like
--- while tenaciously preserving a most usual morphological system. >>

Ironically, this is kind of what Ringe describes in Germanic.  Earlier
morphology shared with Slavic, but later lexical commonality with Celtic and
Italic.

Regards,
S. Long