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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> And remember, there's the issue of the "-on" ending. How can that be
> explained?
Mushtan hebon, (Muistan hevon, - in standard (poetic) Finnish).
I remember the horse. 'Horse' is in the accusative case with the case
ending of -n. In older Finnish the word was heponen > hevonen, horse
- hepo plus diminutive -nen ending.
Peter P