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From: erach <>
Subject: Re: Gear at Grunwald
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:16:57 -0000


Djiene dobre Pan i Panna...

It is true that my knowledgable depth of languages is sadly lacking, but
I fail to see the correlations between haus and dom, stall and stajenny,
brot and chleb...

cordially...

edward...


> The Common Slavic language community, which ended c.500 A.D..,
>borrowed words from Germanic; those for "house", "stable" and "bread",
>among others (Mallory, In Search of the Indo-Europeans, p. 79 (ISBN
>0-500-27616-1)). That doesn't mean that the Germans taught the Slavs
>how to make any of these things, of course, just that there must have
>been considerable contact.

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