Re: Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 54043
Date: 2008-02-23

That seems to be the consensus at the moment as Piotr spelled out helpfully.
Why fight it?
Patrick
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> I'm not convinced at all that Omotic deserves to be part of PAA
> in the first place.
>
> Arnaud
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PAA and PIE have that particular
feature of having reinterpreted
inherited *u as a kind of "non-vowel"
amounting ot *w.

I have not seen a clear case of that
in Omotic
so I'm sceptical.

Of course Piotr's not "part of" the question.

Arnaud

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