A commenter, Old Europe, drew my attention to the Uralic (Finnic-Saamic) substrate in Germanic proposed by Schrijver in Chapter V. Origins of Language Contact and the Origins of the Germanic Languages, Routledge (2014). I wanted to share here some interesting excerpts (emphasis mine): NOTE. I have avoided many detailed linguistic discussions. You should read the … Continue reading Pre-Germanic born out of a Proto-Finnic substrate in Scandinavia