Re: [TIED] Uralic-Etruscan links?

Piotr reprimanding John for his kite-flying:

>It would be much preferable to use Proto-Finno-Ugric or
>Proto-Uralic reconstructions for long-range
>comparisons, or at least endorse your Modern Hungarian
>forms with older data. Nursery words like apa can be
>disqualified before you begin the comparative work. I'd
>disqualify pronouns as well (at least at the
>preliminary stage) because of high risk of accidental
>similarity (how about Russian eto 'it, this', Latin
>ecce, etc.?)

A more proper relation to the Etruscan demonstrative /eca/ is the IE
demonstrative *ke (cf Latin cis; OEng he, heo "he, she"). Russian /eto/ is
ultimately relatable to Etruscan /ita/ at the IndoTyrrhenian stage.
Hungarian -z comes from Uralic *-t- (*wete "water" > Hungarian vi'z)

- gLeN

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