The baltic–armenian–slavic and the baltic–armenian parallels in „parts of the body and their functions‘‘

Abstract

The lexico-semantic group considered in this paper reveals some interesting facts about areal interrelations. The Armenian having the nearest kinship to Greek reveals ad hoc closer con­nections with the Baltic and Slavic. The existence of exclusive isoglosses as well as the group isoglosses not shared by Slavic shows that the contacts between proto-Armenians and proto-Balts were realized not only through the Slavic linguistic area as is adopted by many scholars, but through immediate contacts too. It must also be noted that the Armenian-Baltic isogloss group exceeds the Armenian-Slavic one quantitavely.