Non indo-european Germanic words

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Hello there, I was wondering if there was a way to find out what words in the Germanic Language is I do European and what words came from Haplogroup I; like a dictionary, link, etc. Thanks :)
 
Hello there, I was wondering if there was a way to find out what words in the Germanic Language is I do European and what words came from Haplogroup I; like a dictionary, link, etc. Thanks :)

What you're looking for is called the Germanic Substrate Hypothesis. There are proposed examples of non-IE Germanic words on the Wiki page. Picking out the less disputed ones per the article, there is: sea, steer, sail, keel, sword, bow, eel, lamb, knight, thing, leap, bone, bride.
 
Hello there, I was wondering if there was a way to find out what words in the Germanic Language is I do European and what words came from Haplogroup I; like a dictionary, link, etc. Thanks :)

I wouldn't connect these words to any haplogroup in particular (R1b is also pre-IE for the most part). But incidentally, I wrote two papers related to this matter: one is devoted to the possible non-IE lexicon in Danish (Scandinavian), and the other about the non-IE roots shared by Celtic and Germanic. I can try to find them (there's a methodology about how to find out whether a word is probably non-IE, if I remember well).

However, Maciamo's list is the best thing I've found about this question so far :)
 

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