Re: [tied] Re: IE thematic presents and the origin of their themati

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And why does Russian have the very similar 'vor'
> "thief" (BTW
> > in the comment to this, please leave out the
> sentence "the two are
> > completely unrelated"; I have a copy of Pokorny
> too)?
>
> I haven't got a reliable Russian etymological
> dictionary to hand, but I
> vaguely remember that the word is an early Finnic
> loan in Russian, cf.
> Finnish varas. It's one of those nouns that get a
> /k/ in their
> declension (varkaiden, etc.), but I leave its
> ultimate etymology to
> those who know more about Finno-Ugric than I do.

Germanic wargaz to vargaz in some language and loaned
into Finnish as warkas (to wargas to warGas to waras
to varas) and into Hungarian as farkaS (wolf).


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