adstrate
In historical linguistics, the influence of a neighbouring language on another without either displacing the other. Witzel argues the Dravidian element in the Rigveda indicates an adstrate rather than a substratum.
Where this term appears
- Is Sanskrit the mother of all languages? Journal
…ses which have been taken over into the RV; clearly this indicates an adstrate rather than a substrate." For the earliest books he allows only a hedged shortlist, ukha-chid , hip-breaking, at 4.19.9, phalgu , m…