Re: [tied] Archaic Finnish "Kurre" (squirrel): from Germanic?

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 39697
Date: 2005-08-22

At 10:37:44 AM on Monday, August 22, 2005, C. Darwin
Goranson wrote:

> Seeing as Finnish borrowed many Germanic words, mightn't
> this one be likewise borrowed?

Presumably Swedish <kurre>, a shortened dialect form of
<ekorre> 'squirrel', also used as a name. (There appears to
be a board game, called both 'Kurre' and 'Ekorre spelet',
whose play involves getting the little squirrel Kurre ready
for winter: <http://www.nelostuote.fi/ruotsi/curreregler.html>.)

Brian