Frederik KORTLANDT
BALTIC, SLAVIC, GERMANIC
Abstract.
The western Indo-European vocabulary in Baltic and Slavic is the result
of an Indo-European substratum which contained an older non-Indo-European layer
and was part of the Corded Ware horizon. The numbers show that a considerable part
of the vocabulary was borrowed after the split between Baltic and Slavic, which came
about when their speakers moved westwards north and south of the Pripet marshes.
Germanic and Balto-Slavic were never contiguous Indo-European dialects at any
stage of their prehistory.