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Old European (
alteuropäisch) is the term used by
Hans Krahe (1964) for the language of the oldest reconstructed stratum of
Indo-European hydronymy (river names) in Central and Western
Europe. The character of these river names is pre-
Germanic and pre-
Celtic and dated by Krahe to the
2nd millennium BC.
Old European river names are found in the
Baltic and southern
Scandinavia, in
Central Europe,
France, the
British Isles, and the
Iberian and
Italian peninsulas. Notably exempt are the
Balkans and
Greece, as well as the
Eastern European parts associated with
Slavic settlement. This area is associated with the spread of the later "Western" Indo-European dialects, the
Celtic,
Italic,
Germanic,
Baltic and
Illyrian branches.
Krahe locates the geographical nucleus of this area as stretching from the
Baltic across
Poland and
Germany to the
Swiss plateau and the upper
Danube north of the
Alps, while he considers the Old European river names of southern France, Italy and Spain to be later imports, replacing "
Aegean-
Pelasgian" and
Iberian substrates (p. 81), corresponding to
Italic,
Celtic and
Illyrian "invasions" from about 1300 BC.
"Old European" in this sense isn't to be confused with the term as used by
Marija Gimbutas who applies it to
Neolithic Europe.
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