Re: Sos-

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> I would rather compare this *sos to
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> Number: 929
> Proto: *sOsV-
> English meaning: to become wet
> German meaning: nass werden
> Finnish: (suostu- 'feucht werden' - rejected by Redei)
> Komi (Zyrian): sez- 'feucht werden'
> Khanty (Ostyak): lal- (V) 'feucht, nass werden', jal- (Vj. id.;
> frisch, weich werden', tat- (Kam.) 'quellen, dicht werden (im
> Wasser)', lol (Kaz.) 'feucht, naß machen, befeuchten'
> Mansi (Vogul): tat' (TJ), tot- (KU), tit- (P), tit- (So.) 'nass
> werden'
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> All the more so as this root is massively attested in Ob and
> Yenissei waterbasins in hydronyms.

That root? How do you know?
It makes no sense to call a river 'the wet one', a name must have the
property of singling its referent out among the potential candidates,
thus to mention a special, not a general property of the water body in
question.

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It may make no sense to you.

but there are twenty pages full of Uralic Hydronyms in Werner Yeniseic
Dictionary.

A.

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