From: "Pamela Maddison" Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars Date: 04 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <7e7eq4$ieo$1@news4.svr.pol.co.uk> References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <78pl3c$84o@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b0dc2f.3434839@news.yale.edu> <78v30o$vl6@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b34d7c.60430113@news.yale.edu> <794e84$4iq@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <3744d12a.1873763068@news.wxs.nl> <796m95$eq2@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <375c0ea6.1954957123@news.wxs.nl> <79fo99$qkl@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36effb24.440413110@news.yale.edu> <7cp58m$2de@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36fac983.6248364@news.yale.edu> <3701ad7a.22810790@news.yale.edu> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@theplanet.net X-Trace: news4.svr.pol.co.uk 923221636 18904 62.136.23.216 (4 Apr 1999 10:27:16 GMT) Organization: Customer of Planet Online X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Reply-To: "Pamela Maddison" NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Apr 1999 10:27:16 GMT Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang Looking a bit further back in history: has anybody any opinions on why there are Turkic/Finno-Ugrian elements in 3rd century Gothic? ("Atta" - "father"; "jah" - "and"). These are far too ordinary to have come in via the usual loan-word route.