Re: Ancient ´German´ can´t have been Indoeuropean

On 8 Jan 2006 06:23:26 -0800, dhobraasch wrote:
>
> This in mind back to the linguistics.
> After KLUGE *Etymologisches Woerterbuch der deutschen Sprache 1989*
>
> "for the designation as indogermanic or basiclinguistic we require
> that a word EXEPT IN THE GERMANIC ONE still appear in Ari ( Indic,
> Iranian) or Hittitie or Tokharic"
>
>>> für die Bezeichnung als indogermqnisch oder grundsprachlich verlangen wir, dass
> ein Wort ausser im Germanischen noch im Arischen (Indisch, Iranisch)
> oder im
> Hethtischen oder Tocharischen auftritt*<<
>
> i.e. ALL Indo-European languages have one in common, provable words,
> which appear also in the Germanic one. This taken for true then
>
> German words may be taken as a prerequisit for the linguistic
> designation >> Indogermanic<<
> or for english trained scholars >>Indoeuropean<<.
>
> Why ?
>
> Dieter Braasch

This whole area is the preserve of the uber-crank. Leave it to the
specialists.
Good source is "How to kill a dragon"


--
greymaus


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