Re: Indo-European for Indo-European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> I plead absolute ignorance about the length of PIE dicks (*pes-es-

&2),

> but *pes-no- 'manly' (literally something like 'well-hung') was
> probably used in ethnic names. Alas, one possible example is *pesno-
>
> PGmc. *fenna- > *finna-. If it was a complement paid by the envious
> Germani to their better-equipped Uralic neighbours, your theory

falls.

>
> ;-)
>
> Piotr

This brings up a question. What is the etymology of the Swedish
word 'Finland'? I would guess that it is connected with the English
word 'fen' meaning bog, but I don't have any evidence.

Peter P