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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> > Finnish sänky is a loan from 'new' Swedish 16-1700's, säng, park
> > bench, bed. So probably the Finnish and Estonian words don't do much
> > for establishing a pre-PIE root.
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> What is the evidence it's a loan?
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> Torsten
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Sorry, I used a mistranslation. Of course not a park bench above, but
a garden bed.
Sänki > sänky appears in written Finnish well after vuode - bed,
sleeping place < vuota - animal skin, a Baltic loan. Besides that I
looked up the word in 'Suomen sanojen alkuperä'.
If you are looking for pre-PIE Baltic loans in Finnish you may want to
consider Finnish 'saari' - island, a somewhat similar looking word to
saivo.
Peter P