Re: Indo-Uralic?
From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53585
Date: 2008-02-17
Why is it by the way that you reconstruct PU **nohu 'woman'?
Mainstream reconstruction is PU *näXi- > Pre-Finnic *naXi-
Jouppe
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h regularly become yod
Hungarian is nö
*nohu > *noju > *nöjü > *nö
Finnish *naj
*nohu > *naju > *naj-
PU ä is a fiction.
PU is not proto-Finnish improved.
Just try to get nö out of this **näXi thing.
Arnaud
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