Re: PIE *ghe(n)d

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <gs001ns@...> wrote:

> >Peter Schrijver
> >Lost Languages in Northern Europe has a "language of geminates"
> >called so since roots from it show a variation "of the final
> >root consonant which may be single or double, voiced or
> >voiceless, and prenasalised".
> >
> >He compares a reconstructed Pre-Proto-Germanic (pre-Grimm,
> >pre-Verner) *kant- "hand" with Proto-Finno-Ugric *käti-
> >(Finnish 'käsi')

Inherited '*kate' still appears in Finnish as 'käte-nä' essive case -
as a hand. 'Käsi' - nom. sing., 'kädet' - nom. plur., 'kättä' -
partitive sing.

PeterP

>
> Hungarian "kéz" [ke:z] & morphems "kézi, keze-" ['käzä].
>
> >Torsten
>
> George