Re: IE & Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> Maagyar (long a) is usually linked to :
> Finnish mies "man" and
> Ugric mans "self-name of Ostyak and Vogul"
> it can be *mandz-
> I can't see how to derivate *mord- from *mandz
> Arnaud
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick McCallister
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 9:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Re: IE & Uralic

*maNtya- 'man' was borrowed from a word in an IE language (probably
Baltic) cognate to Slavic *moNgyo-, Skt manus.a-, etc.

Dissimilation of two nasals (m-n > m-r) accounts for the dif.;
there's no reason to add Iranian *martya- to the mix.

Hungarian voiced the stop after a nasal so a voiced obs. in the
proto-language isn't necessary.