Are Germanic languages influenced by Uralic languages?

[Rethel]

Old theory. What do you think about it?

[Ouistreham]

Answer is: yes.
Lots of phonetic peculiarities of Germanic languages can only be explained because of Finnic influences during the Dark Ages.

[Rethel]

Answer is: yes.
Lots of phonetic peculiarities of Germanic languages can only be explained because of Finnic influences during the Dark Ages.

For example?
So how did Finns influenced MHG when they developed umlauts in XVth century?

[Dandelion]

I don't know much about that, but a great deal of Germanic words apparently are of non-Indo-European origin from contacts with non-IE-speakers in Scandinavia and North Germany.

[Kalki]

It could be that it Just evolved a lot more than it's neighbouring Languages due to the late dawn of written Language outside of religious inscriptions.

[NSXD60]

Initial stress is the most often cited evidence by scholars to show the effect of Finno Ugric on Germanic, not to any obvious extent borrowed vocabulary which is insignificant, the Finns having borrowed much more from these proto Teutonic nomads.

[CrazyDaisy]

This explains why I find Uralic vocabulary easier than any other non-indoeuropean vocabulary. It just seems more familiar to me.

[Peterski]

Rethel should be unbanned.

[Dandelion]

Rethel is a Polish szlachcic. A gentleman who has his fellow Pole's back. Dragoon is more of a winged hussar but one living outside of the motherland.

[Aren]

Uralic has had most influence on Indo-Iranian followed by Balto-Slavic. Not sure of the Finnic/Uralic influence on Swedish, there are some recent loanwords from Finnish but they are extremely few.