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  1. Matt Hodgkinson @[email protected] ·
    CW: Linguistics, fruit-based pun

    It's an urban myth that the largest per capita producer of bananas in Europe is Iceland, but their ancestors in the Nordic Bronze Age were no stranger to bannaną.

    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconst

    #ProtoGermanic #NordicBronzeAge #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Puns #BananaBoats #VikingShips #StoneInscription #Linguistics

    #linguistics #stoneinscription #vikingships #bananaboats #puns #indoeuropeanlanguages
  2. Johan Schalin, PhD @[email protected] ·

    @yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
    A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

    #protogermanic #pgmc
  3. Johan Schalin, PhD @[email protected] ·

    @yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
    A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

    #protogermanic #pgmc
  4. Johan Schalin, PhD @[email protected] ·

    @yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
    A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

    #protogermanic #pgmc
  5. Johan Schalin, PhD @[email protected] ·

    @yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
    A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

    #pgmc #protogermanic
  6. Johan Schalin, PhD @[email protected] ·

    @yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
    A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

    #protogermanic #pgmc